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 1351: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In its classic form, the short story is distinguished by its Options:
  A) resolution
  B) narrative form
  C) compact plot
  D) prosaic conception
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1352: ''Mother, didn''t you hear me? I''ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don''t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?I haven''t done anything wrong again, have i? Answer me, speak to me, mother!''The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) sadness
  B) anger
  C) anxiety
  D) nonchalance
  E) joy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1353:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1354: Anansewa's grandmother prays that the man who marries Anansewa Options:
  A) has respect for others
  B) is wealthy
  C) is young
  D) comes from her own area
  E) helps the family
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1355:

  ________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

  Options:
  A) Referrals
  B) Chiasmus
  C) Metonymy
  D) Allusions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1356: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
  Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1357: The narrator in Mission to Kala is Options:
  A) Mongo Beti
  B) Medza
  C) Mama
  D) Niam
  E) Zambo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1358:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1359: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
  And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
  The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
  In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because Options:
  A) of his insanity
  B) such attentions cannot be given by too young a person
  C) of his mournful state
  D) the sincerity of his love is in doubt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1360: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  The main concern of Winston in the novel is to Options:
  A) take power for himself
  B) acquire wealth
  C) overthrow the party
  D) bring social change
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  The correct answer is A .