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 221:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 222:

  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.

  Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is

  Options:
  A) a pious appeal to God
  B) about the permanence of apartheid
  C) concerned with laundry
  D) about slave labour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 223:

  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

  Options:
  A) Find faults in a literary work
  B) Analyze and evaluate a literary work
  C) compare and contrast novels
  D) Discover the beauty of a literary work.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 224: These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.The prevailing theme of the play is Options:
  A) love
  B) social decadence
  C) self-will
  D) affluence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 225: As a literary from the short story is most closely related to Options:
  A) poetry
  B) the discourse
  C) tregedy
  D) the novel
  E) drama.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 226:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 227:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The events in the novel are set in

  Options:
  A) a possible soccial climate
  B) the distant past
  C) a real human society
  D) an imagined world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 228:

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

  The novel is about growth because

  Options:
  A) Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
  B) of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
  C) Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Henchard gradually attains self-awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 229: A didactic piece is one in which the writer Options:
  A) teaches human lessons
  B) condemns human foibles
  C) dictates to his readers
  D) discusses dialectic themes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 230: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Oh, the market is set like the hub of a wheel And it pulls like a magnet strong. It is easy to tell How it casts its spell And draws all the crowds along
  The sound device used in the extract above is
  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .