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 201:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The success of the novel lies in the author's

  Options:
  A) realistic portrayal of Laye's conurtship with Marie
  B) effective use of sociological and fictional materials
  C) recreation of an African childhood in Conakry
  D) use of traditional elements for colour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 202: This question is based on Faceless by Amma DarkoWhat is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home? Options:
  A) she chose to go to the street
  B) her mother remarried
  C) she steals her mother things
  D) she wants to poison her boyfriend
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 203: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue? Options:
  A) Lament
  B) Ode
  C) Sonnet
  D) Epic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 204:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

  Options:
  A) short verses
  B) rhythmic verses
  C) free verses
  D) irregular verses
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 205:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'If you can procreate without loving, merely to satisfy the pride of your declining mother, then I' find you despicable...'

  Whose words are these?

  Options:
  A) Aissatou
  B) Ramatoulaye
  C) Young Nabou
  D) Jacqueline
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 206: 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 207:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 209: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 210:

  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 .