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 541: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Satire employs the use of Options:
  A) onomatopeia
  B) irony
  C) synecdoche
  D) melancholy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 542:

  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.'I hear your call

  I hear if far away

  I hear it break the circle'

  The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

  Options:
  A) refrain
  B) parallelism
  C) chorus
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 543:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 544:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 545:

  'Dead leaves blew into the room.

  And alighted upon my bed.

  Ans a tree declared to the gloom

  Its sorrow that they were shed'

  The mood registered in these lines is

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) depression
  C) gaiety
  D) happiness
  E) persimism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 546: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) marriage
  B) fgighting
  C) honeymoon
  D) hunting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 547:

  'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!

  Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.

  In our own proper entrails'.

  These lines were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Cassius before the corpse of Brutus
  B) Cassius before the corpse of Caesar
  C) Brutus before the corpse Cassius
  D) Titinius before the corpse Cato
  E) Brutus before the corpse Portia.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 548:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 549: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 550:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Point of denouement in a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) point at which the major character is shown in his true colours
  B) point of disagreement in a narrative
  C) point of the resolution of the puzzling issues
  D) cathartic point in a tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .