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 1261:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

  Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

  The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  Options:
  A) envy
  B) suspicion
  C) contempt
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1262:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1263:

  When a writer deviates from the chronological arrangement of events in a literary piece, he uses ...

  Options:
  A) Anadiplosis
  B) Anachrony
  C) Chrestomathy
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1264:

  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 1265:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is

  Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) auditory
  C) tactile
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1266: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1267: He is a faithful liarThe line above is an example of Options:
  A) epigram
  B) oxymoron
  C) euphemism
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1268:

  The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____

  Options:
  A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
  B) of the need for human survival
  C) God wants man to feel less of himself
  D) of the space for God's worship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1269: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton's dreams of Options:
  A) freedom and democracy
  B) wealth and capitalism
  C) sovereignty
  D) internal security
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1270:

  ''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

  This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

  Options:
  A) Gbossa
  B) Benue
  C) Nassarawa
  D) Jabu
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  The correct answer is D .