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 641: In The Victims, the two old women play the role of Options:
  A) guardians of tradition
  B) eavesdroppers
  C) witches
  D) chorus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 642:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 6 is an example of______

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Paradox
  D) Hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 643:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

  Options:
  A) Muslim faithfuls fight with bows and arrows while the British solders use rifles
  B) Emir of Zazzau calls the whitemen to save him from the attack of a fellow Muslim, the Emir of Kontagora
  C) emirates of Sokoto and Zaria have not been friends since the reign of Caliph Abduirahman
  D) emirates are only united to fight the whitemen when it is the turn of Sokoto
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 644:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The play is preoccupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from male domination
  D) women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 645:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) prosody
  C) pun
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 646: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 647:

  _____ is used to describe the predetermination of a future event in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) Analepsis
  B) Prolepsis
  C) Interlude
  D) Fatalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 648:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  Which of the following characters dies last?

  Options:
  A) Catherine
  B) Heathcliff
  C) Linton
  D) Mr. Linton
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 649: A character whose name is also the source of the title of the narrative is called ___? Options:
  A) round
  B) eponymous
  C) flat
  D) tittled
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 650:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jessie Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer,Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is A .