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 1: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The central conflict in the play is Options:
  A) religious
  B) romantic
  C) generational
  D) communal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

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

  The story in the book is told from the point of view of

  Options:
  A) Nwabunor
  B) Obanua
  C) a first person narrator
  D) a third person narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

  Options:
  A) ignorance and poverty
  B) modrnization and foreign culture
  C) Christianity and the quest for wealth
  D) witchcraft and Christianity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) caricature
  C) burlesque
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 5:

  _______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake

  Options:
  A) Tragic flaw
  B) Hubris
  C) Denouement
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  One of the universal themes of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) selfishness of man against his own enviroment
  B) relationship between man and nature
  C) great struggle between the old man and the fish
  D) connection of the sea to human greed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'SINCE I am coming to that Holy roome,

  Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore

  I shall be made thy Musique; As I come

  I tune the Instrument here at the dore,

  And what I must doe then, thinke here before.'

  John Donne, 'hymn to God my God'

  In the stanza above, the poet recognizes that

  Options:
  A) God is his creator
  B) he is a choir master
  C) there is music in heaven
  D) he is near his death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

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

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synedoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .