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 1431:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  ''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.''

  These words are spoken by

  Options:
  A) Tamsir in breaking the news of Modou's second marriage to Ramatoulaye
  B) Modou in support of his relationship with Binetou
  C) Aunty Nabou in trying to convince Mawdo to marry her niece
  D) Mawdo Ba to justify his marrying Nabou out of a sense of duty
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1432:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1433:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1434:

  Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of

  Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream

  As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.

  The underline expression in line 3 is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1435: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1436: 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 1437: The animal which Gerald Durrel found difficult to catch was Options:
  A) the water snake
  B) old plop
  C) alacko
  D) geronimo
  E) achilles.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1438:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."What eyes will watch our large mouths

  Shaped by the laughter of big children

  What eyes will watch our large mouths?" Birage Diop:VanityThe tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) sacrilege
  C) chiasmus
  D) eulogy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1439: In As You Like It Orland's defeat of charles, the Duke's wrestler made his brother Oliver Options:
  A) decide to reconcile with him
  B) plan to kill him
  C) hate him more
  D) ask the servant, Adam to drive him away
  E) give him his deserved inheritance.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1440: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .