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 1521: In Mine Boy Peter Abrahams is of the view that apartheid would cease to exist in South Africa if Options:
  A) the blacks forced out the whites
  B) the whites packed their bags and went away peacefully
  C) the whites became more generous and gentle to the blacks
  D) black and whites stopped regarding people primarily by the colour of the skin
  E) unequal treatment of the black and white at the mines was discontinued.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1522:

  Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

  Options:
  A) Poetry
  B) Prose
  C) Aroma
  D) Drama
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1523:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have said too much unto a heart of stone

  And laid mine honour too unchary out'

  Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare

  The above lamentation is an example of a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) zeugma
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1524:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Lord Lugard and the British military find it easy to penetrate the Sokoto Caliphate because the

  Options:
  A) Muslim faithfuls fight with bows and arrows while the British solders use rifles
  B) Emir of Zazzau calls the whitemen to save him from the attack of a fellow Muslim, the Emir of Kontagora
  C) emirates of Sokoto and Zaria have not been friends since the reign of Caliph Abduirahman
  D) emirates are only united to fight the whitemen when it is the turn of Sokoto
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1525:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1526:

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) central character after whom the play is named
  B) king with deep affection for his subjects
  C) noble character with hubris
  D) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1527: Point out the odd item in this list Options:
  A) Romeo and Juliet
  B) Ozidi
  C) Tom Sawyer
  D) A Raisin in the Sun
  E) Kongi's Harvest
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1528: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionIt can be deduced from the play that Options:
  A) drug pushing is lucrative
  B) no crime will go unpunished
  C) the wealthy also cry
  D) people will always complain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1529:

  The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'

  This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to

  Options:
  A) the killing of Adetusa
  B) the crime of incest committed by King Odewale
  C) Aderopo's quarrel with King Odewale
  D) the banishment of Aderopo.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1530: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .