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 1141:

  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 1142: In literary devices, pun deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1143:

  'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'

  The character described in the passage is the father of

  Options:
  A) Niam
  B) Endongolo
  C) Zambo
  D) Medza
  E) Duckfoot Johnny
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1144:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  Imagery in the play is

  Options:
  A) always sexual and licentious
  B) sometimes sexual but not licentious
  C) always sexual but not licentious
  D) sometimes sexual and licentious
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1145:

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

  The major concern of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) promotion of simple, rural existence
  B) need for women to assert themselves
  C) clash of the old and the new
  D) corrupt nature of urban life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1146: This question is based on Faceless by Amma DarkoWhat is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home? Options:
  A) she chose to go to the street
  B) her mother remarried
  C) she steals her mother things
  D) she wants to poison her boyfriend
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1147: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of Options:
  A) counsellors, spiritual advisers and soldiers
  B) court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
  C) court officials, British official and people
  D) people soldiers and beggars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1148:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

  Options:
  A) Wuthering Heights
  B) The nearby village
  C) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
  D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1149:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1150:

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

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .