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 121:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 122: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with Options:
  A) indifference
  B) suspicion
  C) elation
  D) anger
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 123:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

  Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) anecdotes
  C) prologue
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 124: Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as Options:
  A) a realistic novel
  B) an allegorical novel
  C) a naturalistic novel
  D) a novel of adventure
  E) a sentimental novel
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 125: Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us' is a Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) epic
  C) couplet
  D) quartrain
  E) tercet.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 126: In Procession I-Hanging Day', Soyinka writes about Options:
  A) what he actually witnessed
  B) an imaginary event
  C) what he read about in the pspers
  D) what the prison wader told him
  E) what everyone knows.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 127:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears

  The events in the novel span

  Options:
  A) forty days
  B) two days
  C) five days
  D) seven days
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 128: Besides describing scenes of African village night, Senghor's poem 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definiten statement about Options:
  A) communicating with dead ancestors
  B) fishermen diving into the sea
  C) technological development
  D) movement fron rural to urban centres
  E) black soldiers killed in Europe.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 130:

  Lineation refers to

  Options:
  A) the arrangement of lines in verse form
  B) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
  C) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
  D) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
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  The correct answer is A .