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 191: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 192:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) lines
  C) beauty
  D) themes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 193:

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

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 194: This is my letter to the world
  That never wrote to me
  The simple news nature told
  With tender majesty Her 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 refers to? Options:
  A) God
  B) Letter
  C) World
  D) Nature
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 196: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

  Options:
  A) the humiliation that is in old age
  B) man's refudeal to grow old
  C) different types of characters in the story
  D) the failing productivity that accompanies old age
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called Options:
  A) epanalepsis
  B) antithesis
  C) envoi
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 199:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The word 'image' is associated with

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) mood
  C) tone
  D) abstraction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .