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 1631:

  Odewale: I thought you were leaving with your son Aderopo.

  Ojuola: It is you i married your highness, not my son.

  The exchange from The Gods are not to Blame is an example of

  Options:
  A) flashback technique
  B) dramatic irony
  C) poetic licence
  D) false analogy
  E) pathetic fallacy.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1632:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1633:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1634:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

  The narrative style adopted in the novel is

  Options:
  A) second persons
  B) third person
  C) interior monologue
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1635: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1636:

  Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

  Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1637:

  The gurgling drums

  Echo the stars

  The forest howls

  And between the tress

  The dark sun appears.

  The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) personification.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1638:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) a ballad
  C) an elegy
  D) a pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1639:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

  The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolises.

  Options:
  A) revelation
  B) conviction
  C) blessing
  D) mockery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1640:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .