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 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 2:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

  Conceived new truths.

  Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

  But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

  These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi

  Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

  Options:
  A) warfare
  B) life
  C) bloodshed
  D) conquest
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: Plays are basically meant to be Options:
  A) presented on stage
  B) presented in the aircraft
  C) presented in an office
  D) presented in the hospital
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for

  Options:
  A) an imported alcoholicdrink
  B) a brand of elitist cigrette
  C) a newly commissioned road network
  D) Gold Coast Transport Corporation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in a play to shed light on the present action is

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Flashback
  C) Interlude
  D) Cathersis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  '...This morning alone I have been thrice in conflict with the daughters of discord. First there was...'The omission in the conflict in the above statement from the play refers to

  Options:
  A) Delila and Jezebel
  B) the girl who goes to swim everyday
  C) the woman chasing the drummer boy
  D) Chume's wife whom he owes money.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8: In addition to describing scenes of an African village night, Senghor's poem, 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definite statement about Options:
  A) black soldiers killed in Europe
  B) fishermen diving in the sea
  C) technological development in Africa
  D) population movement fron rural to urban centres
  E) communicating with dead ancestors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 9:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

  Options:
  A) explains why the gods are not to blame
  B) narrates the life history of the hero
  C) reminds the principle character of thier functions
  D) explains to the audience the mimed action on the stage.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

  Options:
  A) digression
  B) flashback
  C) regression
  D) reverie
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  The correct answer is A .