JAMB and WAEC Literature in English questions

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All topics Drama: types and elements · 38 Dramatic techniques · 44 Figures of speech · 44 General literary terms · 40 Literary appreciation: unseen poetry · 29 Literary appreciation: unseen prose · 29 Poetry: imagery, sound and structure · 34 Poetry: types and forms · 30 Point of view and narrative techniques · 27 Prose: plot, setting and characterisation · 29 Prose: types of fiction · 26 Set poems: African poetry · 10 Set poems: Non-African poetry · 17 Set text: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt) · 9 Set text: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley) · 10 Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) · 13 Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland) · 4 Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) · 14

Question 361· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC
A picaresque novel follows
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Answer: D. the episodic adventures of a roguish hero
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Question 362· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
A historical novel is set in
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Answer: D. a real past period
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Question 363· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
Science fiction deals with
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Answer: D. imagined developments in science and technology
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Question 364· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC
A novel in which the story is told through letters is
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Answer: D. epistolary
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Question 365· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
A story in which animals speak and act like people in order to teach a moral is a
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Answer: B. fable
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Question 366· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
A thriller is a novel written to
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Answer: D. excite readers with suspense and danger
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Question 367· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC
A novella is
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Answer: B. prose fiction shorter than a novel but longer than a short story
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Question 368· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
A gothic novel is marked by
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Answer: D. mystery, horror and gloomy settings
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Question 369· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
A novel that tells a story through the diary entries of its main character is written in
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Answer: D. diary (journal) form
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Question 370· Prose: types of fiction· JAMB
Science fiction deals mainly with
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Answer: A. imagined scientific or technological developments
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Question 371· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In Gabriel Okara's 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker addresses
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Answer: D. his son
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Question 372· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In Niyi Osundare's 'Not My Business', the refrain shows the speaker's
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Answer: D. indifference to the suffering of others
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Question 373· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
Akanni, Danladi and Chinwe in 'Not My Business' are
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Answer: A. victims of oppression
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Question 374· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
The 'faces' the speaker in 'Once Upon a Time' has learned to wear, such as homeface and officeface, suggest
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Answer: B. the hypocrisy of modern social life
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Question 375· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In the refrain of 'Not My Business', the speaker cares only that no one takes away his
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Answer: D. yam
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Question 376· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker says that people now laugh only with their
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Answer: A. teeth
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Question 377· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In Soyinka's 'Night', night is presented as a force that the speaker feels to be
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Answer: D. heavy and oppressive
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Question 378· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
At the end of 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker asks his son to
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Answer: B. show him how to laugh as he did when he was young
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Question 379· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
In Wole Soyinka's 'Night', the poet speaks directly to night. This device is
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Answer: C. apostrophe
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Question 380· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC
'Not My Business' ends with
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Answer: D. the waiting jeep arriving for the speaker himself
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JAMB and WAEC Literature in English questions

A picaresque novel follows

A historical novel is set in

Science fiction deals with

A novel in which the story is told through letters is

A story in which animals speak and act like people in order to teach a moral is a

A thriller is a novel written to

A novella is

A gothic novel is marked by

A novel that tells a story through the diary entries of its main character is written in

Science fiction deals mainly with

In Gabriel Okara's 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker addresses

In Niyi Osundare's 'Not My Business', the refrain shows the speaker's

Akanni, Danladi and Chinwe in 'Not My Business' are

The 'faces' the speaker in 'Once Upon a Time' has learned to wear, such as homeface and officeface, suggest

In the refrain of 'Not My Business', the speaker cares only that no one takes away his

In 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker says that people now laugh only with their

In Soyinka's 'Night', night is presented as a force that the speaker feels to be

At the end of 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker asks his son to

In Wole Soyinka's 'Night', the poet speaks directly to night. This device is

'Not My Business' ends with