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 451:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  When a character in a literary work exists primarily to enhance, through contrast, the portrayal of the personal traits of another character is a

  Options:
  A) protagonist
  B) antagonist
  C) mirror character
  D) foil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 452: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 453: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 454:

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

  The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the

  Options:
  A) childhood fun
  B) only set in a crown of thorns
  C) gory details
  D) wicked sappor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 455:

  'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.

  'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'

  'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is

  Options:
  A) love
  B) sympathetic understanding
  C) contempt
  D) respect
  E) difference.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 456: ''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to Options:
  A) Mr. Punblechoo
  B) Mr. Wemmick
  C) Mr. Drummle.
  D) Mr. Brown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 457:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  DUKE:... Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul. What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

  Options:
  A) The book of his relationship with Olivia
  B) The secret of his soul
  C) The details of his relationship with Viola
  D) The details of his relationship with Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 458:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You amble on

  We can no longer

  Wait for nature's course

  We must deliver

  You

  With

  Force'

  Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 459: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.The constant companion of Nnaife's family are Options:
  A) poverty and hunger
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) disagreemnt and humiliation
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 460: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village Options:
  A) children play in the rain
  B) children are delighted while women move in and out
  C) both women and children are delighted
  D) women cook their food
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  The correct answer is B .