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 1611:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1612:

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

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1613: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that Options:
  A) the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb
  B) society is incurable
  C) man is a fateful being
  D) the evils that men do live after them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1614:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'O'let us have him, for his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion and buy men's voices to commend our deeds it shall be said his judgement rules our hands. Our youths and wildness shall not whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity.

  William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

  In the excerpt above, his silver hairs refers to

  Options:
  A) a judicial wig
  B) make-up
  C) old age
  D) wealth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1615: To be complete, a play MUST have Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) dramatic irony
  D) a conflict
  E) several soliloquies.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1616:

  "The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

  Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

  Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

  The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) suffering from insomnia
  B) one of the numerous living in poverty
  C) not an ordinary individual
  D) a difficult individual
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1617: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The speaker is referring to Options:
  A) Fosuwa
  B) Awere
  C) Maanan
  D) Hannah
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1618:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A quatrain is

  Options:
  A) the last line of a poem
  B) the fourth line of a sonnet
  C) a poem which ends with a question
  D) a stanza consisting of four lines
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1619: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A 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. (ed.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader Options:
  A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
  B) to enjoy his success
  C) to give up if he does not succeed
  D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1620:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .