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 211: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a Options:
  A) stanza in poetry
  B) meter in poetry
  C) trope in poetry
  D) verse in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 212: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Satirical writing employs Options:
  A) synechdoche
  B) irony
  C) onomatipoeia
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 213: this Question is based on J.P. Clark''s The Wives'' Revolt.The plot of the play is lineal as reflected in the Options:
  A) episodic nature of the play
  B) movement of the women
  C) arrangement of the events in the play
  D) progression of the argument of Okoro
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 214:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

  Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) night -fires going out
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 215:

  "You can call me a rebel, but I need a job. That's what matters to me." The repercussion of this statement by Aloho is a pointer to the theme ____

  Options:
  A) Of Corruption
  B) That patience is a virtue
  C) On Unemployment
  D) Of Retributive Justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 216:

  'The celebration is now ended

  But the echoes are all around

  Whirling like a harmattan

  Whirl-wind throwing dust around

  And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

  Options:
  A) brought peace to the land
  B) did not kead to joyful times
  C) did not recieve general approval
  D) produced more merriment
  E) affected climate conditions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 217:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 218:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You amble on

  We can no longer

  Wait for nature's course

  We must deliver

  You

  With

  Force'

  Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 219:

  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.'I hear your call

  I hear if far away

  I hear it break the circle'

  The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

  Options:
  A) refrain
  B) parallelism
  C) chorus
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 220: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) satire
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) epigram.
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  The correct answer is A .