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 171:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'Mr. Beckley exploded: I do not come here to ask for a school report on my son. Did you or or did you not savagely attack the child, knowing fully well that his health is most delicate at best of times?

  Wole Soyinka: Isara: A Voyage Around Essay

  In the excerpt above, Mr. Beckley is trying to

  Options:
  A) put the addressee on the defensive
  B) show off to listener
  C) provike a fight
  D) find out the truth from the addresee
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 172: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  A reference beyond the immediate purview of what is being presented is known as Options:
  A) allusion
  B) diversion
  C) inversion
  D) imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 173: Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane Options:
  A) was responsible for his transfers
  B) exacted obedience from his wife
  C) fiiled his children with fear and pain
  D) gave him a very good reputation
  E) made his teacher rebel against him
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 174: The major cause of the tragedy in The Victims is Options:
  A) the African polygamous marriage system
  B) Nwabunor's jealosy
  C) Ogugua's moral laxity
  D) Obunua's irresponsibility
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 175:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  The expression 'The ripest is the saddest encounter' is an example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 176:

  A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

  Options:
  A) Epistolary
  B) Historical
  C) Sociological
  D) Gothic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 177:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'

  In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  Options:
  A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  B) he cannot do good deeds
  C) action often conflicts with knowledge
  D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 178: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as Options:
  A) assistant to Sycorax
  B) leader of the spirits
  C) Prospero's daughter
  D) Alonso's wife
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 179:

  "Rather than so, come fate, into the list,

  And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to

  Options:
  A) Macbeth's fear of not being king
  B) Banqou's children becoming kings
  C) Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
  D) Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 180:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .