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:

  Which one of the following does not relate to the tone in Diop's Vanity?

  Options:
  A) Sarcasm
  B) Condemnation
  C) Rejuvenation
  D) Concern
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1072:

  One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist

  Options:
  A) C. Achebe
  B) C. Ekwensi
  C) W. Soyinka
  D) J.P Clark
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1073:

  'For i have known them all already, known them all.

  Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

  I have measured out my life with coffee spoons'.

  The tone in these lines suggest

  Options:
  A) the authors desire to accomplish more in life
  B) anxiety and tension
  C) tediousness and boredom
  D) anger and exasperation.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1074:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
  B) set of three players written by the same authors
  C) collection of three poems of equal length
  D) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1075:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

  Options:
  A) a flshback
  B) a prophecy
  C) foreshadowing
  D) a reverie
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1076: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'But he had to go out, he had to go and borrow some money, If only one naira so that he and his wife could eat if only one naira ! But who would lend him the money? He didn't know. Friends were few indeed. Nobody would lend him money knowing fully well that he hadn't the means to pay back'
  Violence by Festus Lyayi
  The greater emphasis in this passage is on the Options:
  A) feling of doubt
  B) feeling of despair
  C) feeling of desperation
  D) sence of failure
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1077:

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

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1078:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) contrast
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1079:

  'Folk all fade. And whither.

  As i wait alone where the fair was?

  Into the clammy and numbing night fog

  Whence they entered hither

  Soon one more goes thither!

  In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

  Options:
  A) a night in the poet's life
  B) unpleasant weather conditions
  C) life's problem and misfortunes
  D) the state before birth and after death
  E) darkness after sunset
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1080:

  'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

  And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic dialogue
  B) monologue
  C) mistaken identity
  D) dramatic irony
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is D .