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 General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 152:

  Fights by the book of arithmetic

  The figure of speech in the line above is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) innuendo
  C) hyperbole
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 153:

  'Comes this season of the cassia flower,

  And pent passion peers through the bower,

  Comes the season, and all labour is fallen

  All earthen pitches as china broken'

  The rhyme scheme in this passageb from kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth' is

  Options:
  A) alternative rhymes
  B) triplets
  C) couplets
  D) free verse
  E) blank verse
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 154:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The most important objects in the hut are the

  Options:
  A) prayer-rugs
  B) implements used in the workshop
  C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
  D) pcts containng the magic charms
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 155:

  "In Oyo's eyes there was now real gratitude.

  Perhaps for the first time in their married life the

  Man could believe that she was glad to have him

  The way he was."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?

  Options:
  A) The man's moral uprightnesswas vindicted at the end
  B) She decided to love the man with all his weaknesses
  C) She realized that money was not everything
  D) The man suddenly came by a lot of money
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 156: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The author successfully conveys his message through Options:
  A) interior monologue
  B) comedy of manners
  C) satirical performances
  D) comedy of errors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.The theme of the Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) the conflict of traditions
  B) the futility of man and his tradition
  C) the strenght in diversity of culture and traditional views
  D) ensuring that traditions and beliefs were strictly observed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 158:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  Implies that

  Options:
  A) there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
  B) there is a possibility of moral regeneration
  C) the teacher is not involved in corruption
  D) any corrupt government will be overthrown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 159:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 160: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
  Options:
  A) double standard
  B) concept of love
  C) ideas about women
  D) celebration of industrialization
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  The correct answer is C .