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 11: ''Mother, didn''t you hear me? I''ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don''t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?I haven''t done anything wrong again, have i? Answer me, speak to me, mother!''The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) sadness
  B) anger
  C) anxiety
  D) nonchalance
  E) joy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

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

  The overthrow of Jones happens sooner than expected because the animals

  Options:
  A) experience acute suffering
  B) are milked by Jones
  C) are better schemers
  D) receive assistance from Foxwood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 13:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

  The play portrays the judiciary as

  Options:
  A) unserious and lenient
  B) consistent and just
  C) corrupt and weak
  D) patronising and self-righteous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 14:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above end in a literary device known as

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) conceit
  C) transfered epithet
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 15:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Lllusion and reality
  D) Humour and tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 16:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 17: The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as Options:
  A) theory
  B) plot
  C) theme
  D) characterization
  E) fable.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 18:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Serah dies of

  Options:
  A) haemorrhoids
  B) gunshot wounds
  C) asthma
  D) asphyxiation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 19:

  "The bees are buzzing and humming with great zest.

  The doves are cooing, and the children chatter as they clatter downstairs to come and dabble in the cool system.Use the extract above to answer the question belowThe predicament sound device in the extract is

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) consonance
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 20:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  David Diop's Loser of Everything can be seen as

  Options:
  A) a lamentation of the destruction of African values
  B) the suppression of an African village
  C) a celebration of African values
  D) an account of warfare between an African community and an invading force
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  The correct answer is D .