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: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'

  The image depicted in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) personification
  C) hyperbolic
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 193:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange', the bird's reply concerns

  Options:
  A) the coming of the tide
  B) the uncertainty of the future
  C) market days
  D) mother's visit to the market
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 194:

  "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 195: "Since I came into this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, to the white men, the medal that is given symbolizes Options:
  A) peace
  B) friendship
  C) harmonious relationship
  D) love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196: A Sonnet is a poem of Options:
  A) seven lines
  B) three lines
  C) four lines
  D) fourteen lines
  E) twelve lines.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198:

  And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied

  Like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even

  Jiggers cannot conquerHorny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

  Options:
  A) sole of a pauper
  B) sole of a soldier
  C) policeman
  D) madman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 199: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.The character attributes of Attahiru qualify him as Options:
  A) an egocentric partriot
  B) a Muslim fanatic
  C) a religious martyr
  D) a political revolutionary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 200:

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

  'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.

  It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.

  The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

  Options:
  A) Binetou and Modou Fall
  B) Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
  C) Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
  D) Aissatou and Ramatoulaye
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  The correct answer is D .