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 1891: Soyinka's main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to Options:
  A) expose the corrupt politicians in the society
  B) expose the religious charlatans in the society
  C) expose women power to seduction
  D) coderm men who beat their wives
  E) show the significant of religion in our lives.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1892:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The opening act in the plays takes place at______

  Options:
  A) the village market
  B) the roadside to the farm
  C) the baale's room
  D) by the village stream
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1893:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

  The narrative style adopted in the novel is

  Options:
  A) second persons
  B) third person
  C) interior monologue
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1894:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...

  Lord of the Files by William Golding

  'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

  Options:
  A) gentle response of the animal being roasted
  B) rudeness of the animal to the hunter
  C) gentle process of roasting on the fire
  D) fropping of the fat of the meat in the fire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1895:

  "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 1896:

  A sub-chapter in a piece of drama is a______________

  Options:
  A) Act
  B) Setting
  C) Verse
  D) Scene
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1897:

  Okara's reminiscence in the "Piano and Drums" as to how he walks to the farm with no shoes, marching thorns and dangerous leafs, and still finds this enjoyable creates a feeling of___________

  Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) neglect of African culture for civilized styles
  C) clash of culture
  D) confusion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1898:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1899:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1900:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

  Options:
  A) the principles of conflict
  B) exciting and memorable episodes
  C) the use of figurative language
  D) recurring events
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  The correct answer is D .