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 471:

  In Animal Farm, the song

  'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,

  Beasts of every land and clime,

  Hearken to my joyful tidings

  Of the golden future time.was first sung by

  Options:
  A) Snowball
  B) Squealer
  C) Old Major
  D) Napoleon
  E) Bluebell
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 472:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 473:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'One man with a head

  Shaven clean as a potato

  Whispered to the rising sun,

  A red eye wiped by a tattered

  Handkerchief of clouds.'

  Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

  The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

  Options:
  A) metaphor and onomatopoeia
  B) simile and metonymy
  C) metaphor and simile
  D) personification and onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 474: Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of Options:
  A) power
  B) adventure
  C) his tribe
  D) divination.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 475: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 476: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a tough retired soldier
  B) a soft and gentle husband
  C) an uncompromising traditionalist
  D) a fanatical Catholic adherent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 477: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is Options:
  A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
  B) justly rewarded in the end.
  C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
  D) given national honours in the end
  E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 478:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repitition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 479: 'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of Options:
  A) understatement
  B) overstatement
  C) hyperbole
  D) sarcastic humour
  E) poetic diction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 480: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author's perception of real change in the novel? Options:
  A) A change of government
  B) A change of rulers
  C) The elimination of opponents
  D) The transformation of society
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  The correct answer is D .