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 731: 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 732:

  "The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

  Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

  Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

  The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) suffering from insomnia
  B) one of the numerous living in poverty
  C) not an ordinary individual
  D) a difficult individual
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 733:

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

  Old Major ends his speech to the animals with a song in order to

  Options:
  A) spur them to action
  B) entertain them
  C) display his ability to sing
  D) teach them how to sing an anthem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 734: Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) summarize a story
  D) describe a place
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 735: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as Options:
  A) mime
  B) melodrama
  C) soliloquy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 736:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 737: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,the novel demonstrates the Options:
  A) struggle of man against defeat
  B) attempt to catch fish
  C) desire to understand life
  D) influence of the sea on man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 738:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

  Options:
  A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
  B) his affection for his uncle
  C) the strength of communal living in Africa
  D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 739: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 740:

  Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

  Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .