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 991:

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

  The epilogue in a literary composition is

  Options:
  A) at the beginning
  B) in the middle
  C) at the end
  D) just before the end
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 992:

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

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 993: 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 .
• Question 994:

  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.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 995:

  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 996:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that

  Options:
  A) the world came about by a series of chance happenings
  B) the world was created in three days
  C) a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
  D) death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 997:

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

  The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

  Options:
  A) land dispute
  B) murder of Akukalia
  C) intervention of Captain Winterbottom
  D) siting of the colonial adminstrative headquarters at Okperi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 998:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 999:

  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.

  'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's

  'Snake' refers to

  Options:
  A) culture
  B) primitive instincts
  C) the hissing sound of a snake
  D) someone whispering to himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1000: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) the world of demon lovers
  C) the river Alph
  D) a sunless sea
  E) sunny spots of greenery.
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  The correct answer is B .