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 1411: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of the safety of her child
  B) of her love for Agbadi
  C) her father is dead
  D) that is the tradition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1412:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1413:

  » This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Willy's first words show that his coming back is

  Options:
  A) ill-timed
  B) too early
  C) not expected
  D) normal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1414:

  Which one of the following is most influential to the substance of Hallowell's "The Dinning Table"?

  Options:
  A) the structure of the poem
  B) the atmosphere of the poem
  C) the poetic style
  D) the setting of the poem
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1415:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.

  In the wrong skin.

  Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

  The passage above expresses the state of mind of

  Options:
  A) an alienated man
  B) an adventurer
  C) a renegade soldir
  D) a prisoner
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1416: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1417:

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

  When a character in a literary work exists primarily to enhance, through contrast, the portrayal of the personal traits of another character is a

  Options:
  A) protagonist
  B) antagonist
  C) mirror character
  D) foil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1418: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is Options:
  A) Claudius
  B) Lucianus
  C) Gozango
  D) Baptista
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1419: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1420:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .