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 1901: In The Victims, the affection between Ubaka and Bomboy is significant because it Options:
  A) results in the death of Ubaka
  B) shows that young people are more affectionate than their elders
  C) contrasts with the general hatred in their family
  D) leads to reconciliation in the family
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1902:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' can be interpreted as

  Options:
  A) a defence of the underprivileged
  B) an apology for the affluent
  C) a song of sorrow
  D) a reaction against labour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1903:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called

  Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) a soliloquy
  C) an aside
  D) a diatribe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1904:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through

  '........They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests.......'

  _ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synecdoche
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1905: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1906:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'

  Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

  The force of the speech above is sustained on.

  Options:
  A) delivery
  B) musicality
  C) repetition
  D) oratory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1907: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1908:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The last major battle in the novel is the battle

  Options:
  A) of the Cowshed
  B) of the Windmill
  C) to oust Mr.Jones
  D) to overthrow Snowball
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1909:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  '...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

  Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

  If she passes this way, I am gone,

  I am gone to load my gun

  No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

  By my father's coffin I swear

  I'll shoot my way to it this day;

  Son of the hunter King

  There is liquid fire in my gun!

  ' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

  The beauty of this poem is built upon its

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) extended images of treasure and gun
  C) the protagonist's boastfulness
  D) the arrangement of the lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1910:

  The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

  Options:
  A) objective
  B) first-person
  C) subjective
  D) third-person
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  The correct answer is B .