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 1071:

  '...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'

  The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

  Options:
  A) his father
  B) his grandfather
  C) Ikemefuna
  D) his grandmother
  E) Ezinma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1072:

  Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  Options:
  A) Prosaic
  B) Lyrical
  C) Analogical
  D) Metaphorical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1073:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1074:

  The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) euphemism
  C) pun
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1075: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1076:

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

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1077:

  'I have wandered on the wilderness

  The great wilderness men call life

  The rain has beaten me,

  And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

  Options:
  A) pleasant
  B) difficult
  C) rewarding
  D) exicting
  E) bracing.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1078:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a

  Options:
  A) set each for the upper and lower classes
  B) different set for each Act
  C) variety of sets to suit the subject matter
  D) single set in the whole play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1079:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  What is an epic?

  Options:
  A) A story that exalts a historical character
  B) An epoch-making event
  C) A descriptive poem celebrating the achievements of a character
  D) A narrative prose describing a character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1080: 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 .