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 151: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about Options:
  A) Aaron's choice of course
  B) Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
  C) George qnd Kofi
  D) Hannah and George
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 152: Which of the following characters was assassinated by an unknown assailant in 'Mine Boy' Options:
  A) Daddy
  B) Ma plank
  C) Dladla
  D) chris
  E) Johannes
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 153:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 154:

  "The sudden throb of pain" in Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Old' signifies the_________

  Options:
  A) negative impacts of aging
  B) difficulties of life
  C) youthful age
  D) uncertainties of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 155:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

  your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

  I think ....

  CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

  JERO: You must take her home tonight...

  Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  Options:
  A) keep his secret secret
  B) get the beating out of the way quickly
  C) enable jero get into his house
  D) keep Chume's loyalty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 156: Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following Options:
  A) opression through labour
  B) the dignity of labour
  C) happy childhood
  D) conflict of the culture
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157:

  "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew

  The furrow followed free

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea."Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) free verse
  C) repetition
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 158: In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes Options:
  A) arrogance
  B) childishness
  C) intellectualism
  D) ignorance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 159:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair' The statement above characterizes

  Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 160:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Lineation refers to

  Options:
  A) tracing family descent of poeple in verse
  B) the unit in the rhythmic structure of verse
  C) the arrangement of lines in verse from
  D) the grouping together of a number of units of rhythm
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  The correct answer is C .