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 1761:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

  Options:
  A) get in touch with his relation immediately
  B) hide in the bush for one day and later contact Laoye Layeni
  C) hide in the bush for one week and later contact Sade
  D) contact his friends who arrange his movement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1762:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) joy
  C) empathy
  D) envy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1763: Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of Options:
  A) power
  B) adventure
  C) his tribe
  D) divination.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1764:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  Options:
  A) a pastoral
  B) an epithalamium
  C) a prothalamium
  D) a terza rima
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1765:

  "The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"

  The poet in the excerpt above uses

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) aliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1766: "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 1767: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1768:

  "...Let the greying day grow,

  ...let the evening horns blow,

  ...let the melting mountains go...'The repetition of these lines from Atukwei Okai's

  "Sunset Sonata"

  Options:
  A) is for emphasis for the main ideas
  B) imbues the poem with lyrical qualities
  C) summarizes the major themes of the poem
  D) shows that the poem is truly a dirge.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1769:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) plot
  B) setting
  C) theme
  D) structure
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1770: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
  'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to Options:
  A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  C) surrender himself to the whiteman
  D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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  The correct answer is C .