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 611:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

  Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

  "The free bird thinks of another
  breeze / and the trade winds
  soft through the sighing trees"

  What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

  Options:
  A) It shows where the bird sleeps
  B) It shows the tree is sleeping
  C) It indicates that the bird is carefree
  D) It indicates that it is still early in the day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 612: Anansewa's grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa Options:
  A) has respect for others
  B) is wealthy
  C) is young
  D) comes from her own area
  E) helps the family
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 613:

  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 614: ''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.The passage achieve realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
  E) punctuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 615: A significant of a whole through its significant part is Options:
  A) allegory
  B) pun
  C) synecdoche
  D) cast
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 616:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) limerick
  C) tercet
  D) wit
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 617: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synedoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 618:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 619:

  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 620:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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  The correct answer is B .