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 141: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142: In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is Options:
  A) Ma Plank
  B) Leah
  C) Eliza
  D) Lena
  E) Maisy.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 143:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 144:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?

  Options:
  A) A bridle for her horse
  B) A fiddle
  C) Fruit
  D) A set of paints
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 145:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) demetia
  D) cleansing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 146:

  In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'

  'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) personification
  E) apostophe.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 147:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

  Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

  Options:
  A) The chiefs
  B) Ologbosere
  C) The royal wives
  D) The soldiers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 148: A play is a Tragedy when Options:
  A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
  C) there is much blood shed in the play
  D) the main character is a wicked person
  E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 149:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) she runs away
  B) she is awake
  C) she falls asleep
  D) she is dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 150:

  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 .