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: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, one of the changes introduced into St Agnes' Church by Father Benedict is that Options:
  A) everyone must take holy communion
  B) there must be fasting every month
  C) the Credo must be recited in igbo
  D) the Kyrie must be rendered only in Latin
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 22:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's "Faceless" ended with________

  Options:
  A) an inclination of tragi-comedy
  B) an epilogue narrating how Baby T's spirit revenged her death
  C) an epilogue narrating how Fofo started her early childhood
  D) an inclination of indecisiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 23:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 24: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, in the Achike family,the character who is central to the theme is Options:
  A) Jaja
  B) Kambili
  C) Mama
  D) Sisi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 26:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 27: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 28:

  A struggle between opposing forces in a story/play is________

  Options:
  A) Denouement
  B) Conflict
  C) Comedy
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 29: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'I die, yet depart not,

  I am bound, yet soar free;

  Thou art and thou art not,

  And ever shall be!'

  'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

  Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) meiosis
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  The correct answer is C .