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 1471: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from Options:
  A) sad complaining voices of beggars
  B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
  C) not listening to the dead
  D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1472:

  "O Julius Caesar, thou are mighty yet

  Thy spirit walks abroad."Based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the statement above is

  Options:
  A) a ghost story
  B) superstition
  C) an apostrophe
  D) an exaggeration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1473: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that Options:
  A) Nnaife's elder brother had died
  B) Nnaife has inherited buildings and properties
  C) Nnaife had lost Ngozi
  D) Nnaife has inherited his brother's wives and children.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1474:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ibadan,

  Running splash of rust

  And gold - flung and scattered

  Among seven hills like broken

  China in the sun.'

  J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

  The poem above is memorable for its

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) heroism
  C) metaphor
  D) lyricism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1475:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Flash back in a literary work help to

  Options:
  A) fill the missing link
  B) reveal the characters'mindsets
  C) place the story in proper perspective
  D) relate events that are extraneous to the story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1476:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1477: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The experts, of course Disagree The urine test they ordered Said, Negative.'The lines above from Acqah's In the Navel of the Soul depict Options:
  A) contradiction
  B) inevitability
  C) progress
  D) awareness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1478: The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are Options:
  A) caused by circumstance
  B) self-inflicted
  C) imposed on them by enemies
  D) the act of fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1479:

  Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) trance
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) labyrinth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1480:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

  Options:
  A) Islamic and modern traditions
  B) pre-Islamic and Islamic traditions
  C) pre-Islamic traditions
  D) pre-Islamic and modern traditions
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  The correct answer is A .