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 921: The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because Options:
  A) people stay in their houses
  B) crimes are committed at night
  C) the people can rest their tired bones at night
  D) black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
  E) night brings alot of enjoyment
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 922:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears

  The stealing of three thousand naira by the messenger and the manner of its presentation can be interpreted as Gimba's

  Options:
  A) sentimental attachment to money
  B) approbation of stealing
  C) condemnaton of social injustice
  D) justification of social vices
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 923:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) diary
  B) novel
  C) novella
  D) short story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 924:

  He is a faithful liar

  The line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) antithesis
  C) epigram
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 925:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'I die, yet depart not,

  I am bound, yet soar free;

  Thou art and thou art not,

  And ever shall be!'

  'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

  Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) meiosis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 926: In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could Options:
  A) become pagans
  B) appreciate the beauty of Nature more
  C) go to see Proteus and Triton
  D) become part of Nation
  E) give their 'hearts aways
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 927:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 928: The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called Options:
  A) prologue
  B) oxymoron
  C) apostrophe
  D) costume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 929:

  UZAZAKPO:

  In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your

  Father. That same madness has helped me

  Keep my body in this palace as jester under

  Your full moon. If you will listen to me and my

  Madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you

  Talked to the chiefs was not the right way'

  The play above is basically a

  Options:
  A) tragi-comedy
  B) historical tragedy
  C) dramatic tragedy
  D) documentary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 930:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'I love to pass my fingers,

  As tide through weeds of the sea

  And wind the tall fern-fronds

  Through the strands of your hair

  Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'

  J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'

  The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) alliteration
  C) rhythm
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is D .