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 41:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Fights by the book of arithmetic

  The figure of speech in the line above is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) euphemism
  C) litotes
  D) innuendo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 42:

  Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

  Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?

  Options:
  A) Mrs Bonu
  B) Hannah
  C) Fosuwa
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 43:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

  Options:
  A) romanesque
  B) grotesque
  C) picaresque
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses

  Options:
  A) polyarchy
  B) anarchy
  C) matriarchy
  D) patriarchy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which

  Options:
  A) there is communal feeling
  B) neighbourliness is lacking
  C) neighbours live happily
  D) members are unifriendly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 47:

  'No sentimentality, comrade! War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.'

  This statement in Animal Farm was made by

  Options:
  A) Squealer
  B) Boxer
  C) Major
  D) Snowball
  E) Benjamin.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48: 'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) paradox
  C) euphemism
  D) allusion.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 49:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 50: Part of the meaning of Kongi's Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi's final harvest is Options:
  A) a big yam
  B) respect
  C) disaster
  D) honour
  E) fame
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  The correct answer is C .