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 21: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In literary work, verbal irony refers to a Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the trend of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a logical or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 22:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Farce thrives on

  Options:
  A) big events
  B) premonition
  C) absurdity
  D) incidents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 23:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 24:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25:

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

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 26:

  The clouds were thickening in the red sky

  And night and charmed

  A black power into the pounding waves...'

  The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi

  Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) synecocdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27:

  This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN.
  Which of these characters is at the center of the impact of the xenophobic attack in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Nii Tackie
  B) Ezla
  C) Massa
  D) Aaron Tsuru
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 28: The poem 'Viaticum' portrays a ritual preparation for Options:
  A) life's journey
  B) a war dance
  C) wrestling match
  D) slaughtering cattle
  E) moonlight game
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 29:

  ________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

  Options:
  A) Referrals
  B) Chiasmus
  C) Metonymy
  D) Allusions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 30: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  The main concern of Winston in the novel is to Options:
  A) take power for himself
  B) acquire wealth
  C) overthrow the party
  D) bring social change
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  The correct answer is A .