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 221:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others... When you induce opponent to come to you,then their force is always empty,like attacking emptiness with fulness is throwing stones on eggs.'

  Zhang Yu: The Art of War

  The theme of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) folly of soldiers
  B) spurring people to action
  C) war
  D) inspiration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 222:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m

  A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  In this passage, the writer

  Options:
  A) creates a mood of suspense
  B) enhances an oppressive atmosphere
  C) describes the man's anger
  D) captures the man's habitual impatience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 223:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A work which takes place in a non-existent world or which concerns an incredible character is

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) fantasy
  C) parody
  D) superstition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 224: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a Options:
  A) bicycle owner
  B) chief clerk
  C) chief messenger
  D) deputy to Jero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 225:

  "Why should I play the Roman fool, and die

  On mine own sword?"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies

  Options:
  A) acting the part of a foolish Roman
  B) behaving like Brutus and Mark Anthony
  C) acting like foolish Romans who killed themselves with their own hands
  D) acting the Part of a Roman fool in a play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 226:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'On the sand hill her footprints Gleam like a prisoner's chain

  The lines above from Mohan Singh's .

  'A village girl' suggest the girl's

  Options:
  A) firmness of bearing
  B) slow movement
  C) difficult in walking
  D) psychedelic movement
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 227:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,

  And tell sad stories of the death of kings;

  How some have been deposed, some slain in war

  Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed

  Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,

  All murdered;

  William Shakespeare:King Richard II

  The subject matter of the speech above is

  Options:
  A) regicide
  B) suicide
  C) infanticide
  D) parricide
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 228:

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

  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but ineffective
  B) conomical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 229:

  "...Rage is Chief
  Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
  Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
  Enemy of equanimity"

  The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 230:

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) psycho-consciousness styles
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) shifting style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .