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 General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 22:

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

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 23:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 24: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  In the novel, Africanness is achieved in both Options:
  A) setting and characterization
  B) narration and style
  C) diction and syntax
  D) pun and style
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25: "Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement? Options:
  A) Amankwa
  B) Oyo
  C) Koomson
  D) Osagyefo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 26:

  'The let these eyes around me close, Close close in sleep, close in sleep. That is my word-the mountain always sleeps. Sleep Sleep... sleep..sleep...'

  These lines from The Gods Are Not To Blame were chanted by

  Options:
  A) Iya Aburo to mesmerise her son
  B) Baba Fakunle to mesmerise his assailants
  C) Odewale to mesmerise his assailants
  D) old man to mesmerise Odewale.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 27: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems Options:
  A) Because his daughter slapped him
  B) Because his daughter disobeyed him by travelling to abroad
  C) Because his daughter disobeyed him by moving with prostitutes
  D) Because his daughter ran away with a Yoruba man.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 28: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 29:

  '...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,

  Sir, it provokes:it provokes the

  Desire, but it takes away the performance.'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

  Options:
  A) equivocation
  B) allusion
  C) paradox
  D) monologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'

  We will grieve not, rather find

  Strength in what remains behind',....

  'Ode- Intimations of Immorality

  By William Worthsworth

  The above lines convey a sense of

  Options:
  A) dejection
  B) uneasy acceptance
  C) deep distress
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is B .