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 slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  The only two sons of Meka die fighting for Options:
  A) independence
  B) the colonialists
  C) the church
  D) their people
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 13:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

  That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) detects discrimination
  B) is desirous of adventure
  C) hates his old wife
  D) knows much of his city men
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 14:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  Imagery in the play is

  Options:
  A) always sexual and licentious
  B) sometimes sexual but not licentious
  C) always sexual but not licentious
  D) sometimes sexual and licentious
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 15:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 16: In 'Fulani Cattle', the poet expresses Options:
  A) his belief that cattles are meant to be slaughtered by men
  B) regret that there will soon not be enough cattle to go round
  C) the idea that cattle are created strong to enable them endure the long journey from the north to the south
  D) sympathy for the cattle that are driven from the north to the south of Nigeria to be slaughtered
  E) admiration for the sharp knife with which the cattle are slaughtered.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 17: In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to Options:
  A) the abode of the dead
  B) the palace of Achilles
  C) the abode of the Gods
  D) the ringing plants of windy Troy
  E) the land of the idle king.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 18:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.'

  Immersed in the great depression, they had kept their families together, kept their feet from touching bottom, and kept their faith in the future-their children's future more than their own

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  In the above passage, ''Kept their feet from touching bottom'' suggests staying

  Options:
  A) afloat literally
  B) buoyant economically
  C) alive
  D) affluent
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 19: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Satire employs the use of Options:
  A) onomatopeia
  B) irony
  C) synecdoche
  D) melancholy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 20:

  ...... is also called a dynamic character

  Options:
  A) Protagonist
  B) Round character
  C) Flat character
  D) Foil
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  The correct answer is B .