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 Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is Options:
  A) Adim
  B) Ngozi
  C) Oshia
  D) Adaku
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 542: As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of Options:
  A) autobiography
  B) sermon
  C) travelogue
  D) epistle
  E) biography.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 543:

  The clouds were thickening in the red sky

  And night and charmed

  A black power into the pounding waves...'

  The figure of speech used in these lines from Kwesi

  Brew's 'The Sea Eats Our Land's is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) synecocdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 544: A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an Options:
  A) epithet
  B) epigram
  C) invective
  D) impression
  E) analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 545:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 546:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 547: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties? Options:
  A) An inner tube of a bicycle
  B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
  C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
  D) A bottle of gin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 548:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

  Options:
  A) humility
  B) heroism
  C) nobility
  D) haughtiness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 549:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

  Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

  In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

  Options:
  A) put the addressee on the defensive
  B) show off to listener
  C) provike a fight
  D) find out the truth from the addresee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 550:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'If it is true that the world talks too much

  Then let's all keep quiet

  And hear the eloquence

  Of silence'

  If it is True' by Richard Ntini

  One striking device used by the poet above is

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) contrast
  C) alliteration
  D) end-rhyme
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  The correct answer is C .