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 681:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 682:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) peripeteia
  C) purgation
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 683:

  'I have wandered on the wilderness

  The great wilderness men call life

  The rain has beaten me,

  And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

  Options:
  A) pleasant
  B) difficult
  C) rewarding
  D) exicting
  E) bracing.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 684:

  'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons

  The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'

  The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

  Options:
  A) redemption from ignorance
  B) violence and oppression
  C) conversion from paganism
  D) the building of beautiful edifices.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 685: In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as Options:
  A) erratic
  B) a political agitator
  C) wicked
  D) unlucky
  E) strict.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 686:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 687: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 688:

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

  The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

  Options:
  A) joy
  B) hate
  C) love
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 689:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff's household can best be described as

  Options:
  A) arrogant and insolent
  B) opportunistic and self-centered
  C) haughty and presumptuous
  D) bold and self-assured
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 690:

  A story which explains a natural phenomenon is_______

  Options:
  A) parable
  B) legend
  C) myth
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .