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 a literary from the short story is most closely related to Options:
  A) poetry
  B) the discourse
  C) tregedy
  D) the novel
  E) drama.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1262: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1263:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1264:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1265: A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is Options:
  A) an oxymoron
  B) a parable
  C) an irony
  D) an inversion
  E) a paradox.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1266:

  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 1267:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1268:

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) short story
  B) diary
  C) novella
  D) novel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1269: In addition to describing scenes of an African village night, Senghor's poem, 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definite statement about Options:
  A) black soldiers killed in Europe
  B) fishermen diving in the sea
  C) technological development in Africa
  D) population movement fron rural to urban centres
  E) communicating with dead ancestors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1270: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  Winston Smith begins his rebellion against the power of the state by Options:
  A) purchasing arms
  B) keeping a private diary
  C) opposing the law
  D) educating the youth
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  The correct answer is B .