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 1371: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1372:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The most immediate service that Jero wishes to saddle MEMBER with at the end of the play is to

  Options:
  A) make him finance the building of a church
  B) use him to obtain land allocation
  C) use him to arrest Chume
  D) pay for his velvet cape
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1373: Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) denotation
  D) allusion
  E) imitation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1374: This question is based on General Literary Principles.An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pathos
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) props
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1375: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he Options:
  A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
  B) was a great lover of freedom
  C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
  D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
  E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1376:

  PROSE: AFRICAN: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN

  What distinguishes Nii Tackie from every other Ghanaian?

  Options:
  A) His accent
  B) His face
  C) His tribal mark
  D) His skin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1377: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1378: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1379: Ananse knew who loved his daughter most through Options:
  A) the quality of gifts they sent to him
  B) the eagerness which each showed to marry her
  C) thier reactions to the news of Anansewa's death
  D) the words of thier messengers
  E) the letters the chief wrote to them.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1380: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as Options:
  A) traditional
  B) satiritical
  C) didactic
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is A .