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 1051:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The dominant images in the novel are those of

  Options:
  A) death and time
  B) filth and time
  C) death and decay
  D) filth and decay
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1052:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

  These oily tears

  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

  Will one day be staunched,

  I swear!

  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) supplicatory
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1053:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"

  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) anadiplosis
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) hendiadys
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1054:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's "Faceless" ended with________

  Options:
  A) an inclination of tragi-comedy
  B) an epilogue narrating how Baby T's spirit revenged her death
  C) an epilogue narrating how Fofo started her early childhood
  D) an inclination of indecisiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1055:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

  Options:
  A) capitalists and the socialists
  B) bourgeoisie and the proteriat
  C) market women and the men
  D) farmers and the consumers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1056:

  Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Concrete
  C) Conflict
  D) Confident
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1057: The main purpose of drama is to Options:
  A) tell the story of dead people
  B) teach us how to write
  C) educate us
  D) entertain us
  E) both educate and entertain us.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1058:
  From the novel; Harvest of Corruption

  Chief Ade Amaka portrays_______

  Options:
  A) betrayal of public trust
  B) fraud and misfortune
  C) lust and deceitfulness
  D) the evils of capitalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1059:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Weep not child, weep not my darling

  With these kisses let me remove your tears

  The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious

  They shall no longer possess the sky....

  The speaker of the lines is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) carefree
  C) helpless
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1060: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters,Now look what we have:a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!'
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) suspense
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) oxymoron
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .