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 41:

  'This thing you are doing is too heavy

  For you, he said.'I went to school only a little

  But i have killed many more years in this

  World than you have.' G. Okara: The VoiceIt can be inferred from the the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is more experienced
  B) speaker is more experienced
  C) listener is wise
  D) speaker is a porter
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 42: The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as Options:
  A) theory
  B) plot
  C) theme
  D) characterization
  E) fable.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 43: In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes Options:
  A) flood
  B) ancestor
  C) modernity
  D) sacrifise
  E) golden girl
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) paradox
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  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 46:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 47:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The play is concerned principally with

  Options:
  A) presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
  B) changing the traditional view about comedy in England
  C) the construction and handling of situations and incidents
  D) the presentation of a society without morals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 48: "When he was turned over, his eyeballs stared upward in amazement and horror, his mouth was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still".
  This passage achieves realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 49: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he Options:
  A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
  B) was a great lover of freedom
  C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
  D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
  E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 50: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.How did Winston start his rebellion against the state? Options:
  A) By keeping a private diary
  B) when he started a secret affair
  C) when he spied on the party
  D) by engaging ij anti-party activities
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  The correct answer is A .