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 81:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 82:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

  Options:
  A) land dispute
  B) murder of Akukalia
  C) intervention of Captain Winterbottom
  D) siting of the colonial adminstrative headquarters at Okperi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 83:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

  Options:
  A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
  B) The millions who hew wood
  C) People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
  D) Those who hurl water
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 84:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?

  Options:
  A) He comes to a disgreaceful end
  B) He loses his medial to another
  C) He dies eventually
  D) He dies prematurely
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 85: The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres Options:
  A) non-fiction
  B) prose fiction
  C) poetry
  D) drama
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 86:

  'We sang the song before in the thousand seasons of good harvest and full fish following our fathers' footprints on the long shores.'

  The most obvious sound device in these lines from Kofi Awoonor's 'More messenger' is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) assonance
  D) alliteration
  E) consonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87: Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled? Options:
  A) A climatic episode
  B) An impersonal dramatic piece
  C) An allusive dialogue
  D) A love story told by balled singer
  E) A poem that tells a folk story
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 88: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Big Brother metaphorizes a Options:
  A) totalitarian authority
  B) benevolent leader
  C) revolutionary leader
  D) party brotherhood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 89:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are

  Options:
  A) enjambment and alliteration
  B) repetition and assonance
  C) rhyme and limerick
  D) simile and irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 90: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .