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 191: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 193:

  "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

  A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play

  Options:
  A) could have been averted
  B) is predestined
  C) is brought on enmity
  D) brought misfortune on the lovers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 194:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

  Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

  The passage above describes a troop of

  Options:
  A) cows
  B) elephants
  C) camels
  D) horses
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.The predominant device in Launko's End of war is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) oxymoron
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 196: An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pyrrhic
  B) props
  C) pathos
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  CHUME: Who said you were? Does the prophet live here?

  SAME MAN: Yes. Over there. That house

  CHUME: So...so..so...s...

  Chume's reaction in the exchange above reflects

  Options:
  A) disappointment
  B) rumination
  C) contemplation
  D) awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) ballad
  C) lyrical poem
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 199: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) George
  B) Awere
  C) Hannah
  D) Awao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 200: Chaucer presents The Franklin as Options:
  A) a great noble man
  B) a devout christain
  C) an apicurian in taste
  D) a jovial character
  E) an ambitious man
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  The correct answer is C .