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 161: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The Ministry of peace is concerned with making Options:
  A) weapons
  B) wars
  C) reconciliation
  D) instruments
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 162:

  "Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

  Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

  Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

  Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

  People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

  Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

  Options:
  A) more radiant
  B) more colourful
  C) less awkward
  D) less scheming
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) contrast
  C) couplet
  D) diatribe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 164:

  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 165: Alliteration is Options:
  A) the use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
  B) the repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
  C) usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 166:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 167:

  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.

  'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

  The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

  The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

  These are

  Options:
  A) watchfulness and awareness
  B) sensitiveness and arrogance
  C) patience and caution
  D) caution and justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 168: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Oxymoron is the use of two contrasting words that are Options:
  A) placed far apart
  B) different in meaning
  C) placed side by side
  D) similar in meaning
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 169:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 170:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .