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 861:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 862:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  The lines above are an example of a

  Options:
  A) light verse
  B) light opera
  C) limerick
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 863: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  '' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
  The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to Options:
  A) Nua and Mvondo
  B) the whites
  C) the people of Doum
  D) the white farmers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 864:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

  The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

  Options:
  A) Hannah
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Aunt
  D) Mrs. B
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 865: 'Assonance' is the product of a poet's use of Options:
  A) masculine ryhme
  B) many consonant
  C) regular ryhme
  D) similar sounding vowels
  E) imaginative metaphors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 866:

  'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.

  This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

  Options:
  A) taste
  B) touch
  C) sight
  D) smell
  E) hearing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 867:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 868:

  A poem of 14 lines is known as__________

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) octave
  C) sestet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 869: What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his Options:
  A) smart apearance
  B) difference
  C) gift of microscope
  D) lovely tea parties
  E) inexhaustible knowledge.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 870: "When he was turned over, his eyeballs stared upward in amazement and horror, his mouth 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".
  This passage achieves realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
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  The correct answer is A .