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 311:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

  Options:
  A) a prince
  B) a food lover
  C) being entertained
  D) being manipulated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 312:

  'A trouble shared is a trouble halved' illustrates the use of______

  Options:
  A) Paradox
  B) Cliche
  C) Pun
  D) Metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 313:

  There is a tide in the affairs of man

  Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;

  Omitted, all the voyage of their life

  Is bound in shadows, and miseries.

  This is a statement made by

  Options:
  A) Antonu, urging Caesar to take the crown
  B) Cassius, urging Brutus to join the struggle to remove Caesar before he grows into tyrant
  C) Brutus, urging that Cassius and himself lead out their forces to meet those of Antony and Octavius at Philippi
  D) Casca, urging that the conspirators explain their cause to the populace before their motives are misunderstood
  E) Messala, urging Titinius to search for Pindarus.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 314: The expression "The sun kisses the earth" is a Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 315: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 316:

  'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'

  The character described in the passage is the father of

  Options:
  A) Niam
  B) Endongolo
  C) Zambo
  D) Medza
  E) Duckfoot Johnny
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 317: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) assonance
  C) antithesis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 318: The tone used in the poem Owusu is that of Options:
  A) admiration
  B) fear
  C) cowardice
  D) self-doubt
  E) condemnation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 319:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Where does the play takes place

  Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Aunt's place
  C) In Ofosu's place
  D) On the street
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 320:

  A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as _________?

  Options:
  A) characteristics
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .