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 981: Alliteration is Options:
  A) the use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
  B) the repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
  C) usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 982:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary criticism, the vocabulary or language used by a writer is generally known as

  Options:
  A) diction
  B) figures of speech
  C) characterization
  D) rhythms
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 983: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'From the sky suspended the strings of tattered pants marched on trembling feet under stone heavy-kits marched, on their breast scared, monogram of skulls and bones'
  Ossie Enekwe:Mass for the Dead
  The subject matter of the extract above is Options:
  A) wastage
  B) war
  C) love
  D) hatred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 984:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The real victims are

  Options:
  A) Ndidi and Ogo
  B) Nwanze and Obanua
  C) Ubaka and Bomboy
  D) Nwabunor and Ogugua
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 985:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero's opening speech in the is a

  Options:
  A) soliloquy
  B) monologue
  C) narrative
  D) confession
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 986:

  "The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"

  The poet in the excerpt above uses

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) aliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 987:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 988:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) labyrinth
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) trance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 989:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 990:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You Kiss her on the cheek

  As white people do,

  You Kiss her open-sore lips

  As white people do,

  You suck slimy saliva

  From each other's mouths,

  As white people do.'

  Okot p' Bitek 'Song of Lawino'

  The writer of the lines above uses repetition

  Options:
  A) for emphasis
  B) to underscore disapproval
  C) to enhance irony
  D) for imitation
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  The correct answer is A .