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 21:

  This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.

  Yaremi's main job is taffeta

  Options:
  A) mending
  B) making
  C) weaving
  D) dyeing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 22:

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Melancholic
  B) Ironic
  C) Harsh
  D) Derisive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 23: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.Brother Chume as a member of Jero's congregation is Options:
  A) an informed disciple
  B) a messenger to Brother Jero
  C) a loyalist and a good husband
  D) a disgruntled and gullible follower
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 24:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.A cursing rogue with a merry fảrce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crutch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) abab
  B) bbaa
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25:

  The theme that runs through Hallowell's Dining Table is that of________

  Options:
  A) Conflict
  B) Brutality
  C) Poverty
  D) Loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 26:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A quatrain is

  Options:
  A) the last line of a poem
  B) the fourth line of a sonnet
  C) a poem which ends with a question
  D) a stanza consisting of four lines
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 27: A funny incident within a serious situation is Options:
  A) comedy
  B) comic relief
  C) tragic comedy
  D) tragic hero
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 29: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

  Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

  In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) resignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is B .