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 1681: "...He who sharpened the edge of hearts...."In Kunene's To The Soldier "Hero" is Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) a swordsman
  C) a blacksmith
  D) an artist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1682:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) portagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1683:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1684:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1685:

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

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1686:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1687:

  'Let me listen in the smoky hut where there comes a glimpse of the friendly spirits

  My head on your bosom warm like a dang smoking from the fire'.The dang in the verse from 'Nuit de Sine' refers to

  Options:
  A) wheels of spining cotton into yarn
  B) sea weed, full of salt
  C) a wolof word for granulated flour meal, known also as couscous
  D) a Northern Uganda local brew, usually strong and meant for men
  E) a kind of narcotic or stimulant.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1688:

  He who writes a prose is a__________?

  Options:
  A) Poet
  B) Writer
  C) Author
  D) Actor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1689:

  '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 1690: A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an Options:
  A) epithet
  B) epigram
  C) invective
  D) impression
  E) analogy
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  The correct answer is B .