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 2031: Achebe's Things Fall Apart, can be described as a Options:
  A) regional novel
  B) detective novel
  C) romatic novel
  D) historical novel
  E) novel of social criticism.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2032: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2033:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2034:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2035:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

  Options:
  A) assist in the development of the characters
  B) sustain the reader's interest
  C) reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
  D) slow down the pace of the plot development
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2036:

  The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as

  Options:
  A) Anamnesis
  B) Anagnorisis
  C) Hamartia
  D) Hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2037:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

  Options:
  A) has little money for her
  B) condisers the trade in furmity unscrupulous
  C) thinks it is not respectable to talk to the old women
  D) has learned what she wanted from the old woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2038:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation. '' 'The white man of God is coming here for Easter! The white man of God is coming to spend Easter with us!' This was the talk everywhere in Nkar among the old and young, even among the pagans. We had been taught everything about him in advance, When he comes we should observe his beard and see if it was not forked like that of .Christ.''

  Kenjo Jumban:The white man of God From the passage, the white man of God is treated with

  Options:
  A) awe
  B) derision
  C) suspicion
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2039: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A fable is a brief narrative illustrating wisdom and Options:
  A) custom
  B) turth
  C) urgency
  D) origin
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2040:

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

  'I die, yet depart not,

  I am bound, yet soar free;

  Thou art and thou art not,

  And ever shall be!'

  'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

  Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) meiosis
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  The correct answer is C .