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 1211:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

  Options:
  A) a flshback
  B) a prophecy
  C) foreshadowing
  D) a reverie
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1212: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1213:

  _____________refers to time and place of a drama?

  Options:
  A) place
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) act
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1214:

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

  '' The old man himself does not believe in it

  But when people see you doing something to get ahead, they become jealous and shout the slogans against you .''

  What is being referred to in these lines?

  Options:
  A) Christianity
  B) Pan Africanism
  C) Socialism
  D) Capitalism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1215: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersWhere does the play take place? Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Ofosu's place
  C) On the street
  D) On the stage
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1216:

  _______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake

  Options:
  A) Tragic flaw
  B) Hubris
  C) Denouement
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1217: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. From the play, the character of Aaron represents the Options:
  A) new generation
  B) old generation
  C) painters
  D) art work
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1218:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1219:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'

  The image depicted in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) personification
  C) hyperbolic
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1220:

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

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .