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 241:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  In Niyi Osundare' s ' They Too Are The Earth', musical effect is achieved by

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) double rhymes
  C) assonance
  D) end rhymes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 242:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The success of the novel lies in the author's

  Options:
  A) realistic portrayal of Laye's conurtship with Marie
  B) effective use of sociological and fictional materials
  C) recreation of an African childhood in Conakry
  D) use of traditional elements for colour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 243:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights NATIVE SON

  Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are

  Options:
  A) together
  B) servant in the white family
  C) educated
  D) given some respect
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 244:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

  Options:
  A) fundamentalist
  B) liberal
  C) ambiguous
  D) fanatical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 245: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 246:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

  The noveldraws a picture of______?

  Options:
  A) useless past
  B) a totalitarian future
  C) an unstable moment
  D) a peaceful atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 247: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) acted
  B) discussed
  C) read
  D) sung
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 248: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  In the novel, the most prominent from of literature used is Options:
  A) myth
  B) drama
  C) poetry
  D) folktale
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 249:

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) a record of the writer's experience during a journey
  B) the account of the experiences of an individual during his lifeline
  C) the account of the travails of a character in a novel
  D) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 250:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .