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 171: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The main aim of of caricature is to Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasize
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 172:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 173:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) tells untrue stories
  B) is relevant to life
  C) deals with exciting and memorable events
  D) presents fictional accounts of human experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 174:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 175: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
  Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here? Options:
  A) Abel Magwich
  B) Mr. Wopsle
  C) Mr Punblechook
  D) Joe Gargery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 176:

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) She falls asleep
  B) She is dead
  C) She is awake
  D) She runs away
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 177:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism isis better than aniamalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyon is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 178:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Ha! That motoka is motoka

  It belongs to the Minister of Fairness

  Who yesterday was loaded with a doctorate

  At Makerere with whisky...

  Plus I hear the literate thighs of an undergraduate'

  The above stanza from Theo Luzuku's 'The Motoka' demonstrates that the minister is

  Options:
  A) corrupt and immoral
  B) a gifted doctoral graduate of Makerere
  C) an owner of a motor-car which is laden with whisky
  D) underserving of the literate thighs of an undergraduate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 179: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 180:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becauses

  Options:
  A) an irony
  B) a symbol
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is B .