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 11: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 12: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is Options:
  A) geisha
  B) shark
  C) iris
  D) marlin
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 13:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A necessary quality of every work of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) shows a creative use of language
  B) has to be publishable in order to gain wide acceptance
  C) teaches a moral lesson
  D) characters or actors
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 14:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 15:

  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

  Options:
  A) harrangue
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) saga
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 16:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is

  Options:
  A) story angle
  B) story line
  C) aside
  D) point of view
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 17:

  In drama, comic reliefs often occur in_______

  Options:
  A) comedies
  B) tragedies
  C) historical plays
  D) romantic plays
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 18:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) she runs away
  B) she is awake
  C) she falls asleep
  D) she is dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 19:

  The question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate

  The word As I hate hell, all Montagues,

  And thee Have at thee,coward!"Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a

  Options:
  A) real Montague
  B) trouble shooter
  C) violence seeker
  D) peace maker
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 20:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .