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 311:

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

  The main significance of the fire in the novel is to

  Options:
  A) provide warmth
  B) roast meat
  C) provide warning
  D) provide signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 312:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) tells untrue stories
  B) is relevant to life
  C) deals with exciting and memorable events
  D) presents fictional accounts of human experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 313:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

  'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

  In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

  Options:
  A) has wasted all his mother's money
  B) is money
  C) has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
  D) has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 314: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 315:

  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 316: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author's perception of real change in the novel? Options:
  A) A change of government
  B) A change of rulers
  C) The elimination of opponents
  D) The transformation of society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 317:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) nemesis
  C) catharsis
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 318:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.

  Oculi, 'Orphan'

  These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 319: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 320: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work that teaches moral is said to be Options:
  A) instructive
  B) corrective
  C) impressive
  D) didactic
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  The correct answer is D .