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 501: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems Options:
  A) Because his daughter slapped him
  B) Because his daughter disobeyed him by travelling to abroad
  C) Because his daughter disobeyed him by moving with prostitutes
  D) Because his daughter ran away with a Yoruba man.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 502:
  From the novel; Native Son

  Richard Wright's " Native Son" may be described to a/an_______

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) picaresque
  C) bildungsroman
  D) travelogue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 503:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 504: 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.Launko's End of the War portrays the Options:
  A) silence of battlefield
  B) irony of life
  C) arrangement of war
  D) usefulness of praise singers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 505: Alliteration is Options:
  A) the use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
  B) the repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
  C) usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 506:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) theme
  B) plot
  C) structure
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 507:

  Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh'sThe Soul's Errandthrough the use of

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) Antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 508:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  You solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;...

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

  Options:
  A) a soliloguy
  B) an aside
  C) an apostrophe
  D) an interior monologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 509:

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

  J.P Clak's 'Streamside Exchange, depicts an interplay of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and passion
  B) anxiety and ignorance
  C) excitement and passion
  D) ignorance and wisdom
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 510: This question is based on General literacy principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is Options:
  A) parallelism
  B) assonance
  C) alliteration
  D) pun
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  The correct answer is A .