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 511:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  The most dominant pair of poetic device in Mtshall's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is

  Options:
  A) simile and repetition
  B) rhythm and metaphor
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) repetition and personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 512: Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian? Options:
  A) The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
  B) Weep Not Child
  C) Mine Boy
  D) A Man Of The People
  E) Mission to Kala.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 513: According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is Options:
  A) poor
  B) religious
  C) hopeful
  D) frustrated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 514:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

  Options:
  A) diction
  B) figures of speech
  C) characterization
  D) rhythms
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 515:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 516:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an epic
  C) a ballad
  D) a singer's story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 517:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

  From the poem above, SHADOW means

  Options:
  A) bleak future
  B) period of suffering
  C) abstract ideas
  D) famine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 518:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called

  Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monoloque
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 519: Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because Options:
  A) he was hungry
  B) he was greedy
  C) he was afraid
  D) he thought they were wild
  E) they refuse to give him food.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 520:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .