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 761:

  You would often hear on hen remark to another,

  Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, i have laid five eggs in six days'. or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim,

  'Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water taste!'It is obvious from this passage that the narrator

  Options:
  A) agrees with the animals good opinion of Napoleon
  B) thinks the hen are correct while the cows are wrong
  C) agrees with the cows and dissagree with the hens
  D) feels it is not possible to know the truth
  E) its being ironic since neither the cows nor the hens are correct
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 762: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 763: A plot in a literary work is about Options:
  A) character delineation
  B) casual arrangement of events
  C) resolution of conflicts
  D) law of poetic justic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 764:

  _____ is used to describe the predetermination of a future event in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) Analepsis
  B) Prolepsis
  C) Interlude
  D) Fatalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 765:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's first-person narrative techinique

  Options:
  A) makes the work very humorous
  B) makes his work less realistic
  C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
  D) makes his story more believable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 766:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

  Options:
  A) burnt finger
  B) broken promise
  C) torn dress
  D) broken fence
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 767: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
  That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
  Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are Options:
  A) Hamlet's orchard and his crown
  B) young Hamlet and Gertrude
  C) the crown and the queen
  D) Norway and young fortinbras
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 768: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,the novel demonstrates the Options:
  A) struggle of man against defeat
  B) attempt to catch fish
  C) desire to understand life
  D) influence of the sea on man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 769: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New ManIn terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as Options:
  A) conformists
  B) liberals
  C) fanatics
  D) puritans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 770: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .