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 1271:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  What is an epic?

  Options:
  A) A story that exalts a historical character
  B) An epoch-making event
  C) A descriptive poem celebrating the achievements of a character
  D) A narrative prose describing a character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1272:

  These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.

  From it's resolution of conflicts, the play can be described as a

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) farce
  C) melo drama
  D) comedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1273: This question is based on General Literary Principles.An art that is both literary and theatrical is Options:
  A) a prose
  B) a poem
  C) drama
  D) prosody
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1274:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1275:

  Peter Abraham's Mine Boy can be described as a

  Options:
  A) regional novel
  B) detective novel
  C) romatic novel
  D) novel of social critism
  E) historical novel.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1276:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Othello kills Desdemona because the_______

  Options:
  A) former is jealous
  B) former's race is insulted
  C) latter is a witch
  D) latter is an idol
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1277:

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

  Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because

  Options:
  A) of his great love for the whiteman
  B) he had come to distrust the power of Ulu
  C) he did not want Oduche to succeed him as chief priest
  D) he wanted a representative in the group in case they became powerful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1278: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The Ministry of peace is concerned with making Options:
  A) weapons
  B) wars
  C) reconciliation
  D) instruments
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1279: A novel is Options:
  A) a long prose narrative fiction
  B) an interesting story about a hero
  C) a prose writings that deals with various people
  D) a long story in which homan characters represents abstract qualities
  E) a prose writing about the lives of great and interesting people.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1280:

  'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.

  'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'

  'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is

  Options:
  A) love
  B) sympathetic understanding
  C) contempt
  D) respect
  E) difference.
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  The correct answer is C .