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 21:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as

  Options:
  A) sober
  B) boastful
  C) defiant
  D) languid
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 22: 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 23:

  One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist

  Options:
  A) C. Achebe
  B) C. Ekwensi
  C) W. Soyinka
  D) J.P Clark
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 24:

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

  The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of

  Options:
  A) lkaki
  B) Ekpe
  C) Udje
  D) Etiyeri
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 25: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because Options:
  A) the acievement sems out of touchwith his society back home
  B) the tropical atmosphere is full of happiness
  C) the dispensation he meets provides mixed satisfaction
  D) he has become indifferent to his own society.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 26:

  'The celebration is now ended

  But the echoes are all around

  Whirling like a harmattan

  Whirl-wind throwing dust around

  And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

  Options:
  A) brought peace to the land
  B) did not kead to joyful times
  C) did not recieve general approval
  D) produced more merriment
  E) affected climate conditions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27:

  In drama, the protagonist is ________

  Options:
  A) the writer of the drama
  B) the leading character
  C) the “nice guy”
  D) the actor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Sound effects in the theater are realizable through the use of

  Options:
  A) props
  B) acoustics
  C) proscenium
  D) echoes
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 29:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

  Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

  "The free bird thinks of another
  breeze / and the trade winds
  soft through the sighing trees"

  What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

  Options:
  A) It shows where the bird sleeps
  B) It shows the tree is sleeping
  C) It indicates that the bird is carefree
  D) It indicates that it is still early in the day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 30: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
  "Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!" Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) Oxymoron
  C) Alliteration
  D) Euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .