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 1701: A character whose name is also the source of the title of the narrative is called ___? Options:
  A) round
  B) eponymous
  C) flat
  D) tittled
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1702:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''

  The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

  The description above suggests

  Options:
  A) urban disorder
  B) a labyrinth
  C) clutter
  D) disharmony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1703:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The prologue of any work is the

  Options:
  A) conclusion
  B) introduction
  C) middle
  D) turning point
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1704:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called

  Options:
  A) an oratorio
  B) a motet
  C) an opera
  D) a concert
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1705:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

  You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Mawdo
  B) her mother-in-law
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Tamsir
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1706:

  In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

  Options:
  A) fear of natural disasters
  B) uncertainties of life
  C) futility of war
  D) essence of mankind and nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1707:

  Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) hopeless
  B) afraid
  C) confident
  D) uncertain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1708:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1709:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.DUKE:...Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped To thee the book even of my secret soul.

  What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

  Options:
  A) The book of his relationship with Olivia
  B) The secret book of his soul
  C) The details of his relationship with Viola
  D) The details of his relationship with Olivia.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1710:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. 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: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofThe literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

  Options:
  A) alliteration and assonance
  B) simile and irony
  C) repetition and alliteration
  D) rhyme and rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .