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 131: 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 132: Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because Options:
  A) social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  B) revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  C) man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  D) revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  E) animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 133:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

  From lamps'.

  Options:
  A) Abiku drinks oil
  B) For Abiku, oil is water
  C) while other babies suck the breast, Abiku sucks oil
  D) The lamp is kept burning all night on account of Abiku
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 134:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 135:

  The atmosphere of a poem has to do with_________

  Options:
  A) Time and Place
  B) Rhythm and Rhyme
  C) Tone and Mood
  D) Versification and Lineation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 136:

  What structure is poetry written in?

  Options:
  A) sentences and paragraphs
  B) sentences and stanzas
  C) lines and paragraphs
  D) lines and stanzas
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137:

  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 138: Which of the following was not written by Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) The interpreters
  B) The Lion and the jewel
  C) The Trials of Brother Jero
  D) Kongi's Harvest
  E) The Strong Breed.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 139: Ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) discussed
  B) read
  C) sung
  D) acted
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 140:

  "The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

  Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

  Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

  The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) suffering from insomnia
  B) one of the numerous living in poverty
  C) not an ordinary individual
  D) a difficult individual
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  The correct answer is C .