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 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 .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 123:

  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.

  John Keats' 'Old on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that

  Options:
  A) the Grecian Urn is ancient
  B) the Grecian Urn is mysterious
  C) every work of art is beautiful
  D) life is long, art is longer
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 124:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 125:

  An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

  Options:
  A) props
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 126:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is

  Options:
  A) story angle
  B) story line
  C) aside
  D) point of view
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 127:

  A poem is said to be good if it________

  Options:
  A) has elevated style
  B) has rhyme and reason
  C) is difficult to understand
  D) has a regular rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 128:

  One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) happy ending
  C) tragic hero
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 130:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but ineffective
  B) conomical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .