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 1321:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Sound effects in the theater are realizable through the use of

  Options:
  A) props
  B) acoustics
  C) proscenium
  D) echoes
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1322:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A necessary quality of every work of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) shows a creative use of language
  B) has to be publishable in order to gain wide acceptance
  C) teaches a moral lesson
  D) characters or actors
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1323:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  
  In the play, social change is achieved through

  Options:
  A) collectivism
  B) sectionalism
  C) individualism
  D) communism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1324:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

  Options:
  A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
  B) loss of man's property
  C) seasonal flow of nature
  D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1325: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  In the society of Nwokocha Agbadi, a man's social rating is determined by his Options:
  A) oratorical power
  B) physical prowess
  C) gentle mien
  D) altruistic actions
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1326: We are all diseas'd
  And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,
  Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,
  And we must bleed for it
  The images in the passage mostly draw attention to Options:
  A) fun
  B) ill-health
  C) carelessness
  D) sacrifice
  E) dieting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1327: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1328: Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of Options:
  A) repetition of symbolic references
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) exaggeration
  D) flowering language.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1329: The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are Options:
  A) caused by circumstance
  B) self-inflicted
  C) imposed on them by enemies
  D) the act of fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1330:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'His round cheeks, his round nose, his round chin were a cool, healthy red. In the globe of his face and neatly circular as if drawn in bright crayon, his narrow long, tip tilted eyes, clear a pale blue water, seemed out of place, as if two incompatible strains had collided in making him.'

  The picture presented above of a particular individual has

  Options:
  A) photographic clarity
  B) satiric undertones
  C) elements of exaggeration
  D) derogatory connotations
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  The correct answer is A .