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 1421: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as Options:
  A) an authentic African
  B) a cultural mulatto
  C) sophisticated African
  D) a cultured youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1422: A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua's pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her Options:
  A) innate promiscuity
  B) love of public scandals
  C) defiance of social norms
  D) self-hate.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1423:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles. With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,

  And purple-stained mouth,'

  John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale'. The above lines are an example of

  Options:
  A) tautology
  B) comic relief
  C) euphemism
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1424:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

  The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

  Options:
  A) Hannah
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Aunt
  D) Mrs. B
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1425: Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus Options:
  A) just as he is about to surrender to Antony
  B) as he is about to leave the forum after the assassination of Caesar
  C) just as he is about to address his fellow citizens
  D) after Cassius and Brutus have resolved their differences
  E) before Brutus receives the news of his wife's death.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1426:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

  Options:
  A) romanesque
  B) grotesque
  C) picaresque
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1427:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  '...Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.'Those being ridiculed here are the

  Options:
  A) spinsters
  B) husbands
  C) wives
  D) old women
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1428:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

  Conceived new truths.

  Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

  But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

  These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi

  Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

  Options:
  A) warfare
  B) life
  C) bloodshed
  D) conquest
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1429:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1430:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

  Options:
  A) Wuthering Heights
  B) The nearby village
  C) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
  D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
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  The correct answer is C .