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 1591: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1592:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1593:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to

  Options:
  A) salvation
  B) despondence
  C) poverty
  D) fate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1594: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1595:

  Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

  Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?

  Options:
  A) Mrs Bonu
  B) Hannah
  C) Fosuwa
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1596: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is Options:
  A) eulogy
  B) anthology
  C) lampoon
  D) premiere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1597:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The novel is a mixture of

  Options:
  A) fiction and fantasy
  B) the objective and the absurd
  C) pessimism and optimism
  D) the real and the supermatural
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1598:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunel is presented as a

  Options:
  A) fine specimen of an education young man
  B) truly progressive and enlightened youth
  C) strong defender of the people's tradition
  D) caricature of a modern educated man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1599:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) endnote
  C) climax
  D) denouement
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1600: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with Options:
  A) disdain
  B) indifference
  C) honour
  D) kid gloves
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  The correct answer is A .