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 1261: As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because Options:
  A) because he wants to patronize the local drink
  B) he is very happy to return to his village
  C) he is very thirsty
  D) he wants to pick up courage to face his father
  E) his journey has been very successful.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1262:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1263: In the poem, 'The Cathedral', Kofi Awoonor expressed Options:
  A) sorrow at the disappearance of his village
  B) his feeling about traditional religion
  C) disapproval of the change from Africa's past life to the present modern
  D) anger at life slavery and colonialism
  E) his approval for the building of a cathedral in his village
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1264:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1265:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

  Options:
  A) Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
  B) Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
  C) Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1266:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

  The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

  Options:
  A) eaten the entire entrails of sheep
  B) eate more than his share of the food
  C) been in a whiteman's office
  D) assisted Meka in getting the medal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1267:

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

  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but ineffective
  B) conomical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1268:

  The phrase living death in a literary work is an example_____________

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Prose
  C) Oxymoron
  D) Aside
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1269: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1270:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

  Options:
  A) short verses
  B) rhythmic verses
  C) free verses
  D) irregular verses
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  The correct answer is C .