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 181:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?

  Options:
  A) Comic and absurd
  B) Stupid and simplistic
  C) Pompous and spontaneous
  D) Decisive and bold
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 182: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
  Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
  The poem above can best be described as
  Options:
  A) epic
  B) heroic
  C) praise
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 183:

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

  When does the play open and close?

  Options:
  A) In the afternoon
  B) At midnight
  C) In the morning
  D) In the evening
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 184: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 185:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

  Options:
  A) digression
  B) flashback
  C) regression
  D) reverie
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as Options:
  A) brave and resourceful
  B) frightened and beastly
  C) religious and orderly
  D) anarchic and savage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187:

  Careened',
  These oily tears
  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
  Will one day be staunched, I swear!
  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) supplicatory
  B) optimistic
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 188:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:

  The literary term for conflict in literature is_________

  Options:
  A) Agon
  B) Hubris
  C) Hamartia
  D) Anaphora
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  The correct answer is A .