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 761:

  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 .
• Question 762: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 763:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.The wood decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapour weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The subject matter of the line above is

  Options:
  A) death
  B) famine
  C) storm
  D) rainfall
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 764:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is

  Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) revival of colonalism
  C) the changing face of colonial masters
  D) the good attributes of colonalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 765:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 766:

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!
  You are my mortal enemy'

  The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  Options:
  A) allusion
  B) an ode
  C) metaphor
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 767:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an epic
  C) a ballad
  D) a singer's story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 768: The expression "The sun kisses the earth" is a Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 769: Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as Options:
  A) a novel
  B) a tragic play
  C) an autobiography
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 770:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .