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: There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
  The speaker uses a string of Options:
  A) Metaphors
  B) parables
  C) hyperboles
  D) riddles
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  The overthrow of Jones happens sooner than expected because the animals

  Options:
  A) experience acute suffering
  B) are milked by Jones
  C) are better schemers
  D) receive assistance from Foxwood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 4: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

  The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

  Options:
  A) Hannah
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Aunt
  D) Mrs. B
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 8:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

  George Eliot, Silas Marner

  In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

  Options:
  A) kind and generous friend
  B) father to everyone in the community
  C) miserly and ungracious ruler
  D) quick tempered and adamant man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10: An antagonist is a character in a narrative who Options:
  A) uses abusive language to antagonize other characters
  B) works against the interest the interests of the protagonist
  C) works against the interests of other characters
  D) champions the cause of the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .