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 1221:

  A poem of 14 lines is known as__________

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) octave
  C) sestet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1222:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  '''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''

  The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the

  Options:
  A) misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
  B) outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
  C) sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
  D) ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1223:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1224: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as Options:
  A) an authentic African
  B) a cultural mulatto
  C) sophisticated African
  D) a cultured youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1225:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1226:

  At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.

  The setting is best described as

  Options:
  A) bracing
  B) dismal
  C) exhilarating
  D) delightful
  E) pleasant.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1227:

  Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?

  Options:
  A) writer's opinion of the characters
  B) way the characters are revealed to the reader
  C) characters and the way they behave
  D) reader's opinion of the character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1228: The line 'Ask them why they idle there' in Kofi Awoonor's Song of Sorrow' is a reference to Options:
  A) ancestors
  B) loafers
  C) vagabonds
  D) urchins
  E) ancestors
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1229: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
  The sound device used in the extract above is Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1230: "If you touch me, I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters, the issue at stake is that Options:
  A) Maanan is trying to compromise
  B) Lawyer B is trying to kiss Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Mrs Bonu is taunting Maanan for loving her husband
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  The correct answer is B .