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 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 2:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play is based on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mllow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4: Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian? Options:
  A) The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
  B) Weep Not Child
  C) Mine Boy
  D) A Man Of The People
  E) Mission to Kala.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.

  Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'

  The character in the poem above is obviously a

  Options:
  A) veteran
  B) prisoner
  C) mercenary
  D) refugee
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

  Options:
  A) purposeful
  B) impoverished
  C) confused
  D) amused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

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

  'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'.

  Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

  The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
  'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to Options:
  A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  C) surrender himself to the whiteman
  D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  '...let the greying day grow

  ....let the evening horns blow

  ....let the melting mountains go

  ....but let the sundown sow''

  To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

  The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

  Options:
  A) metaphorical
  B) symbolical
  C) alliterative
  D) rhythmical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 10:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's Faceless may be best described as a___________

  Options:
  A) Travelogue
  B) Satire
  C) Lampoon
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .