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 751:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 752: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a Options:
  A) saga
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) harangue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 753:

  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 754:

  Read the extract below and answer this question.

  But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the above extract is

  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) house movement
  C) sea waves
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 755:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The language of the play is

  Options:
  A) ambiguous
  B) condemnatory
  C) apolitical
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 756: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; 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: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of Options:
  A) the old generation
  B) new generation
  C) present generation
  D) successive generation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 757:

  Ahero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

  Options:
  A) Deuteragonist
  B) Periaktos
  C) Tragic hero
  D) Tragic flow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 758: When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using Options:
  A) slapstick
  B) a curse
  C) invective
  D) personification
  E) sacrilege.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 759: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand Options:
  A) Friar Laurence
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Balthasar
  D) Friar John
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 760: In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet Options:
  A) warns about the danger of elephants
  B) tells the story of Elephants
  C) describes the attributes of the elephants
  D) shows where to find elephants
  E) wants the destructions of elephants
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  The correct answer is C .