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 1181: An allegory is a story Options:
  A) in which people or things or events have another meaning
  B) which aims at teaching a moral lesson
  C) in which allegations are made about the characters
  D) told in verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1182: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.The Fulani Creation Story' suggests that the basic problem of man is Options:
  A) blindness
  B) worry
  C) death
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1183: 'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) short sentences
  D) the past tense
  E) puntuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1184: In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as Options:
  A) erratic
  B) a political agitator
  C) wicked
  D) unlucky
  E) strict.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1185:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

  Options:
  A) the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  B) the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  C) all those who join the new religion would become lepers
  D) religion invites diseases
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1186: The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) primal youth of the African
  C) beauty of the Concerto
  D) the decay of African Civilization.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1187:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1188:

  "Why should I play the Roman fool, and die

  On mine own sword?"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies

  Options:
  A) acting the part of a foolish Roman
  B) behaving like Brutus and Mark Anthony
  C) acting like foolish Romans who killed themselves with their own hands
  D) acting the Part of a Roman fool in a play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1189:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1190:

  A story which explains a natural phenomenon is_______

  Options:
  A) parable
  B) legend
  C) myth
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .