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 1461:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears

  The events in the novel span

  Options:
  A) forty days
  B) two days
  C) five days
  D) seven days
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1462:

  There is a tide in the affairs of man

  Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;

  Omitted, all the voyage of their life

  Is bound in shadows, and miseries.

  This is a statement made by

  Options:
  A) Antonu, urging Caesar to take the crown
  B) Cassius, urging Brutus to join the struggle to remove Caesar before he grows into tyrant
  C) Brutus, urging that Cassius and himself lead out their forces to meet those of Antony and Octavius at Philippi
  D) Casca, urging that the conspirators explain their cause to the populace before their motives are misunderstood
  E) Messala, urging Titinius to search for Pindarus.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1463: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as Options:
  A) epitasis
  B) protasis
  C) catharsis
  D) catastasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1464:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an anagnorisis
  B) a tragic flaw
  C) a catharsis
  D) a catastrophe
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1465: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1466:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1467:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1468:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!

  You are my mortal enemy'.

  The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) allusion
  C) apostrophe
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1469:

  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 1470:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .