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 121: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to

  Options:
  A) be heavilymoralistic
  B) be clearly cohesive
  C) possess the unities
  D) have tragic elements
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 123: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 124:

  A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

  Options:
  A) Epistolary
  B) Historical
  C) Sociological
  D) Gothic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 125:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 126:

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

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 127:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

  Options:
  A) lopsided resolution of conflicts
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) contrived misrepresentation of characters
  D) match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 128:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...Then, let her take another husband from among her own people. A woman without a man is like rich farm soil without the feel of roots.

  Beautiful woman without a man is a crab-over-protected by shells: selfish...'

  This statement in the play refers to the

  Options:
  A) attack on Benin customs by the whitemen
  B) marital status of Queen Victoria
  C) hatred the Oba has for unmarried white women
  D) Oba's desire to marry Queen Victoria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 130:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .