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 1221:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  In a narration, the first person is

  Options:
  A) the author
  B) a participant
  C) the publisher
  D) an observer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1222: The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because Options:
  A) people stay in their houses
  B) crimes are committed at night
  C) the people can rest their tired bones at night
  D) black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
  E) night brings alot of enjoyment
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1223: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by Options:
  A) hope and agreement
  B) freedom and self-determination
  C) pricks and tears
  D) dissapointed and disarray
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1224:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) the account of the travails of a character in novle
  B) a record of the writer's experiences during a journey
  C) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
  D) the account of the experiences of an indiviual during his lifetime
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1225: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes. Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1226:

  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 1227:

  This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

  The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

  Options:
  A) Laboratory attendant is trying to act as a nurse
  B) The medical doctor is in love with Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Lawyer B is trying to Kiss Maanan.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1228:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1229:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1230:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____

  Options:
  A) is a virgin
  B) has a wealthy family
  C) is of marriageable age
  D) is free from her family
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  The correct answer is A .