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 151:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the

  Options:
  A) meeting of Parson Tringham and Mr Durbeyfield
  B) rape scene
  C) sudden return of Angel Clare from Brazil
  D) death of Tess'child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 152:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.The most significant factors driving members to Jero's church in the play are

  Options:
  A) poverty and dissatisfaction
  B) fulfilment and security
  C) wealth and ignorance
  D) poverty and lust for power
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 153:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 154:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '''Yet lunchtime ''

  Without thinking of what of what he was saying

  The man tapped out, 'Not food'.

  Insu Siding answered, 'Plenty here''.

  And a conversation had begun.

  ''Lucky''.

  ''Come. Transfer. Easy''

  ''Can't.''

  ''Why?''

  ''Secret.''

  ''Familu?''

  ''Secret''.

  The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by A.K. Armah.

  This is an example of a dialogue that is

  Options:
  A) pitchy
  B) witty
  C) laconic
  D) simple
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 155:

  'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

  In this passage, axe of intemperance means

  Options:
  A) hot temper
  B) cool temper
  C) evil mind
  D) recklessness.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 156: "Since I came to this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the speaker above is Options:
  A) the Catechist
  B) Nua
  C) Nkolo
  D) the Commandant
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 157:

  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 John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 158:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

  The noveldraws a picture of______?

  Options:
  A) useless past
  B) a totalitarian future
  C) an unstable moment
  D) a peaceful atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 159: In ''Abiku'', the statement ''Yams do not sprout in amulets To earth Abiku''s limbs....''Simply means Options:
  A) Abiku should not be buried with amulets
  B) yams and amulets are repugnant to Abiku
  C) Abiku cannot be appeased
  D) yams cannot grow on Abiku's grave.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 160:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'

  Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters

  The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

  Options:
  A) repetition of consonant sounds
  B) multiplication of medial consonant sounds
  C) repetition of initial consonant sound
  D) duplication of consonant sounds clusters
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  The correct answer is C .