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 361: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of Options:
  A) counsellors, spiritual advisers and soldiers
  B) court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
  C) court officials, British official and people
  D) people soldiers and beggars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 362:

  'Serrating down your back and front

  Like beak of the sword-fish,

  And both your ears, notched

  As a bondsman to this house...'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) metaphor
  E) verismilitude.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 363:

  'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

  And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic dialogue
  B) monologue
  C) mistaken identity
  D) dramatic irony
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 364:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm,

  The thunderstorm begins with

  Options:
  A) rain from the west
  B) rain from the east
  C) clouds from the west
  D) clouds from the east
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 365:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 366:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 367: The grave procession in Soyinka''s ''procession l-Hanging day'' is meant to suggest in the entire poem Options:
  A) the people in the procession are going to the grave
  B) the people are moving slowly in order to avoid the sunny spots
  C) the people in the procession are solemn
  D) the people in the procession are solemn and are going to the grave
  E) the people walk soundlessly.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 368:

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) central character after whom the play is named
  B) king with deep affection for his subjects
  C) noble character with hubris
  D) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 369:

  '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 370:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) personification
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is D .