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 331:

  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.

  Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

  Options:
  A) the poet had fought in many wars
  B) of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
  C) of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
  D) of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 332: The dominant mood in Senghor's poem in Memoriam' is one of Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) sadness
  C) despair
  D) joy
  E) frustration.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 333:

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.

  Options:
  A) purgation
  B) peripeteia
  C) hubris
  D) anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 334:

  From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.

  The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) understatement
  C) sarcasm
  D) synecdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 335: There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
  The speaker uses a string of Options:
  A) Metaphors
  B) parables
  C) hyperboles
  D) riddles
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 336:

  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 337:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  I will pronounce your name, Obi, I will declaim you, Obi!The device used in the line above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) chronological
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 338:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Assonance occurs when

  Options:
  A) a character speaks eloquently in a play
  B) similar vowel sounds are repeated in a sentence or line of poetry
  C) consonants are repeated at the beginning of words
  D) words rhyme alternately
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 339:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.

  Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 340:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ibadan,

  Running splash of rust

  And gold - flung and scattered

  Among seven hills like broken

  China in the sun.'

  J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

  The poem above is memorable for its

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) heroism
  C) metaphor
  D) lyricism
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  The correct answer is C .