Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 1551: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1552: Achebe's Things Fall Apart, can be described as a Options:
  A) regional novel
  B) detective novel
  C) romatic novel
  D) historical novel
  E) novel of social criticism.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1553:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  The novel is set after which major war?

  Options:
  A) First World War (1914-1918)
  B) Aba Women Riot (1929)
  C) Second World War (1939-1945)
  D) The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1554: what is the subject of Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth? Options:
  A) The size of the universe
  B) The immensity of Nature
  C) Death
  D) Growth
  E) A long journey
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1555:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1556: In ''Abiku'', the statement ''Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku''s limbs....''Simply means Options:
  A) Abiku should not be buried with amulets
  B) yams and amulets are repugnant to Abiku
  C) Abiku cannot be appeased
  D) yams cannot grow on Abiku's grave.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1557:

  A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) novella
  C) fable
  D) epistle
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1558: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.Meka can best be described as Options:
  A) a simple hearted old man
  B) an impulsive old man
  C) an old religious bigot
  D) an egocentric old man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1559: In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if Options:
  A) the blacks forced out the whites
  B) the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully
  C) the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks
  D) black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
  E) unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1560: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Big Brother metaphorizes a Options:
  A) totalitarian authority
  B) benevolent leader
  C) revolutionary leader
  D) party brotherhood
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  The correct answer is A .