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 1: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synedoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 3:

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

  In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

  Options:
  A) By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
  B) By introducing him to hermother
  C) By giving him her portrait with an inscription
  D) By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The opening act in the plays takes place at______

  Options:
  A) the village market
  B) the roadside to the farm
  C) the baale's room
  D) by the village stream
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is Options:
  A) Adim
  B) Ngozi
  C) Oshia
  D) Adaku
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) an authority to write
  B) a copyright
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitutional provision
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The predominant use of the third-person pronoun in a novel creates a

  Options:
  A) sense of detachment on the part of the writer
  B) sense of detachment on the part of the reader
  C) psychological affinity with the characters
  D) balance of opinion among the characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  What is an epic?

  Options:
  A) A story that exalts a historical character
  B) An epoch-making event
  C) A descriptive poem celebrating the achievements of a character
  D) A narrative prose describing a character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9: In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because Options:
  A) Pip had in a haste forgotten to pack those old shoes of his
  B) they wanted to play a practical joke on Pip for the last time
  C) Pip had made them angry by his joy to leave home
  D) they believede that the act would bring him good luck.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A motif is

  Options:
  A) a recurrent image in a work of literature
  B) the reason behind a character's behaviour
  C) a single matrical line
  D) an essay or treatise on a particular subject
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  The correct answer is A .