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 261: An antagonist is a character in a narrative who Options:
  A) uses abusive language to antagonize other characters
  B) works against the interest the interests of the protagonist
  C) works against the interests of other characters
  D) champions the cause of the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 262:

  'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'

  The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

  Options:
  A) pprophecy
  B) courage
  C) truth
  D) justice.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 263:

  The bar in Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" is a symbol for the___________

  Options:
  A) presence of God's and his guiding force
  B) world
  C) boundary between life and death
  D) grave
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 264:

  In Animal Farm, the song

  'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,

  Beasts of every land and clime,

  Hearken to my joyful tidings

  Of the golden future time.was first sung by

  Options:
  A) Snowball
  B) Squealer
  C) Old Major
  D) Napoleon
  E) Bluebell
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 265: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.One of the dominant themes if Rubadin's An African Thunderstorm is the Options:
  A) relationship between man and woman
  B) activities of man during rainy seasons
  C) effect of rain on women and children
  D) problem of climate change
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 266:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

  Options:
  A) the serious is treated in a satirical way
  B) subordination of characterization to plot occurs
  C) music and dance predominate
  D) evil triumphs over good
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 267: Which of the following was not written by Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) The interpreters
  B) The Lion and the jewel
  C) The Trials of Brother Jero
  D) Kongi's Harvest
  E) The Strong Breed.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 268: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is Options:
  A) education
  B) slavery
  C) colonisation
  D) corruption
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 269:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed

  Options:
  A) do not believe in victory
  B) are never willing to fight for their rights
  C) are no longer willing to fight for their right
  D) are determined to give meaning to their life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 270:

  This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

  " The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) imagery
  C) personification
  D) synedoche
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  The correct answer is C .