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:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) opposition
  B) heroine
  C) villain
  D) hero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 452:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

  Options:
  A) horse
  B) piece of land
  C) source of water
  D) farmland
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 453:

  'And now the bells are chiming

  A year is born

  'And my heart bell is ringing

  In a dawn'

  The writer of these words is in a state of

  Options:
  A) exuberance
  B) dejection
  C) despair
  D) joyful hope
  E) dismal sorrow.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 454: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems Options:
  A) Because his daughter slapped him
  B) Because his daughter disobeyed him by travelling to abroad
  C) Because his daughter disobeyed him by moving with prostitutes
  D) Because his daughter ran away with a Yoruba man.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 455:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  To justify the deposition of the Emirs of Bida and Kontagora, the British authorities accuse them of

  Options:
  A) oppression
  B) mendacity
  C) partiality
  D) embezziement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 456:

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

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 457:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synedoche
  D) metonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 458:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 459: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
  Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
  Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
  The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
  These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
  Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of Options:
  A) zeugma
  B) oxymoron
  C) antithesis
  D) conceit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 460: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) acted
  B) discussed
  C) read
  D) sung
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  The correct answer is D .