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 391: 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 392: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.You want to known something then you run like a rabbit'The device used in the line above is Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 393: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs Options:
  A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
  B) the night before his fishing expedition
  C) in his house
  D) at the end of the book
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 394:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) rituals
  C) proverbs
  D) songs and dances
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 395: This question is based on the Literary Appreciation'' To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower.Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.''William Blake, To Sea a World in a Grain of SandThe predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 396:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) confidentiality
  C) authenticity
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 397: Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) a lyric
  C) dramatic monologue
  D) ballad
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 398:

  "They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,

  Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels

  Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) mixed metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 399: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 400: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .