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 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 202:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The specie of conflict exemplified in the Native Son is that of_______

  Options:
  A) man against society
  B) man against nature
  C) man against culture
  D) man against man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 203: The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night . Options:
  A) when Banquo was murdered
  B) before macbeth was killed
  C) when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
  D) when macbeth went to see the witches
  E) when duncan was murdered.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 204: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.Room 101 symbolizes a place oF Options:
  A) rest
  B) humiliation
  C) torture
  D) fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 205:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is

  Options:
  A) an omniscient narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) a scond person narrator
  D) a tird person narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 206:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be described as

  Options:
  A) dramatic epilogue
  B) dramatic monologue
  C) role-playing
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 207:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

  The dominant tone of the novel is one of

  Options:
  A) bitterness
  B) hope
  C) fear
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 208: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that Options:
  A) Nnaife's elder brother had died
  B) Nnaife has inherited buildings and properties
  C) Nnaife had lost Ngozi
  D) Nnaife has inherited his brother's wives and children.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 209:

  That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) sadness
  C) joy
  D) triumph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 210:

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

  Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of

  Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) anger
  C) contempt
  D) pity
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  The correct answer is D .