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: "Stream of consciousness" is the name for Options:
  A) a narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
  B) an italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
  C) a stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
  D) a cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 182: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the
  Options:
  A) increment of fortune for the pilgrims
  B) blind acceptance of faith
  C) hazards of the journey
  D) journey as an influential factor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 183:

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

  'You just wait, I'll tell you more

  But let me first sell my tomatoes'.

  These two lines from Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka'

  Reveal the poet's true state of

  Options:
  A) delight
  B) reality
  C) fear
  D) dream
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 184: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  'Pregnant clouds
  Ride Safely on its back'
  pregnant clouds in Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm implies
  Options:
  A) uncertainty
  B) calmness
  C) disbelief
  D) fertility
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 185:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The character of Marshal in the play shows that

  Options:
  A) human beings are selfless
  B) human beings are the same
  C) men love women
  D) human beings love power
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186: Plays are basically meant to be Options:
  A) presented on stage
  B) presented in the aircraft
  C) presented in an office
  D) presented in the hospital
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 187: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 188:

  _______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake

  Options:
  A) Tragic flaw
  B) Hubris
  C) Denouement
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 189:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

  Options:
  A) motif
  B) ritual
  C) myth
  D) concept
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) marriage
  B) fgighting
  C) honeymoon
  D) hunting
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  The correct answer is B .