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 441: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around Options:
  A) Julia
  B) Big Brother
  C) Winston Smith
  D) O'Brien
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 442: The pauper in Richard Ntiru's poem of that title is Options:
  A) hungry,lonely and sad
  B) lonely, dirty but happy
  C) dirty, hungry and terrified
  D) hungry,lonely and diseased
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 443:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A system of plot development which creates the future through anticipation and the past through memory is

  Options:
  A) deja vu
  B) avant-garde
  C) medieval
  D) metaphysical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 444:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Which of the following are literary genres?

  Options:
  A) Poetry, farce and faction
  B) Fiction, poetry and drama
  C) Drama, faction and biography
  D) Poetry , orthography and fiction.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 445: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwrite
  B) by an unpopular novelist
  C) on a journey
  D) before the death of the author
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 446: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.Launko's End of War suggests that war brings about Options:
  A) ultimate solution to all problems
  B) partial solution to problems
  C) multifaceted problems
  D) only temporary relief
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 447:

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) psycho-consciousness styles
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) shifting style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 448:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that

  Options:
  A) the world came about by a series of chance happenings
  B) the world was created in three days
  C) a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
  D) death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 449:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.Piano and Drums according to Okara's Piano and Drums are musical instruments of __________

  Options:
  A) contradictory tunes
  B) complementary tunes
  C) different cultural milieus
  D) different rhythmic appeals
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 450:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'In those days

  When civilization kicked us in the face

  When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'

  David Diop: The vulture

  The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) simile
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .