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 91: ''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.The passage achieve realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
  E) punctuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 92:

  A woman cried out.The policeman who was edging nearer had been joined by another.Both were edging nearer.Carefully and slowly.But it was not that that had made the woman cry out.She had seen one of the men's hand slip.He was now holding on by one hand only.The crowd was tense.This was the Kill.Automatically they moved forward in a body.The doctor was in the lead.

  The author of this passage creates in the reader

  Options:
  A) disbelief
  B) a feeling of nostalgia
  C) a feeling of light hearted relaxation
  D) suspense
  E) unconcern
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 93:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 94:

  The literary term for conflict in literature is_________

  Options:
  A) Agon
  B) Hubris
  C) Hamartia
  D) Anaphora
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 95:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 96: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The end of Give Me The Minstrel's seatseems to suggest that one needs the Options:
  A) support of others
  B) complete command of one's wives
  C) support of one's kinsmen
  D) aid of pots
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 97: 'Assonance' is the product of a poet's use of Options:
  A) masculine ryhme
  B) many consonant
  C) regular ryhme
  D) similar sounding vowels
  E) imaginative metaphors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 98:

  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.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 99:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

  Options:
  A) sub theme
  B) chronology
  C) suspense
  D) causality
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 100:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  The major thematic preoccupation of her play is

  Options:
  A) the constraintic on parental obligations
  B) the problems of class and English mannerisms
  C) the presentation of a mannerless society
  D) changing the traditional view about English comedy
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  The correct answer is B .