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 1031: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1032:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1033: In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes Options:
  A) arrogance
  B) childishness
  C) intellectualism
  D) ignorance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1034:

  'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.

  In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

  Options:
  A) Brazilian legend
  B) Greek mythology
  C) French cosmology
  D) American history
  E) African folklore.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1035: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1036:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'

  Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

  The dog in the passage

  Options:
  A) followed his master about
  B) ran after his master's fish
  C) caught the fish between the legs
  D) watched as his master ate the fish
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1037:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1038:

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

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1039: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersWhere does the play take place? Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Ofosu's place
  C) On the street
  D) On the stage
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1040:

  Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
  Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.

  The lines above are a good example of_________

  Options:
  A) caricature
  B) ridicule
  C) satire
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is A .