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 1761:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

  From the poem above, SHADOW means

  Options:
  A) bleak future
  B) period of suffering
  C) abstract ideas
  D) famine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1762: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The major reason for Juliet's grief is Options:
  A) the death of her cousin
  B) her reluctant marriage to the County
  C) the banishment of her lover
  D) her imminent death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1763:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called

  Options:
  A) clairvoyance
  B) inspiration
  C) invocation
  D) nemesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1764:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1765:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) contrast
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1766: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  In the play, Fasuwa represents the Options:
  A) new culture
  B) patriarchy
  C) old order
  D) African civilization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1767:

  'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours...'

  The description of the town in this passage suggests

  Options:
  A) peaceful co-existence
  B) lack of progress
  C) warmth and friendliness
  D) organized living
  E) monotony
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1768: Mtchali's 'Nightfall in Soweto'is about one of the following Options:
  A) moonlight play at night
  B) disease that attacks the body
  C) a man fighting against a dangerous animal
  D) an animal attacking a helpless man
  E) a wicked man opressing a helpless man
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1769:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1770: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as Options:
  A) brave and resourceful
  B) frightened and beastly
  C) religious and orderly
  D) anarchic and savage
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  The correct answer is D .