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 231:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

  Iyase's entreaty comes when

  Options:
  A) the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  B) the whitemen attack Benin
  C) Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  D) Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 232:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 233: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  In the play, Fasuwa represents the Options:
  A) new culture
  B) patriarchy
  C) old order
  D) African civilization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 234:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The ode and the elegy are examples of

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) lyrical poetry
  C) narrative poetry
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 235:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

  Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

  In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

  Options:
  A) put the addressee on the defensive
  B) show off to listener
  C) provike a fight
  D) find out the truth from the addresee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 236:

  'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
  Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
  Did I go to college?
  Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

  The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) parallelism
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 237:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 238: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) a simile
  C) a personification
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 239: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 240:

  The doctors looked at chris johannes.

  They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).

  The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

  Options:
  A) it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit
  B) it lead to the arrest of the miners by the police
  C) it shows the bad conditions of the mines
  D) it ios the result of panic
  E) it keeps xuma out of trouble.
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  The correct answer is A .