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 301:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 302:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 303:

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

  The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one

  Options:
  A) has loved and cared for one's spouse
  B) has left behind children to be remembered by
  C) has fulfilled one's destiny on earth
  D) will haunt the living for the past offences
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 304:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 305:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

  "If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast"

  The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) personification
  C) oxymoron
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 306: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.You want to known something then you run like a rabbit'The device used in the line above is Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 307:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  '... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...

  This description refers to

  Options:
  A) Modou Fall
  B) Mawdo Ba
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Aissatou
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 308:

  This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters

  The Major issues at hand in the Sons and Daughters play is that

  Options:
  A) Laboratory attendant is trying to act as a nurse
  B) The medical doctor is in love with Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Lawyer B is trying to Kiss Maanan.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 309:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

  Options:
  A) food
  B) job
  C) security
  D) power
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 310:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The hunter dies and leaves his poverty to his gun

  The blacksmith dies and leaves his poverty to his anvil..

  The extract above is an example of

  Options:
  A) elegy
  B) ballad
  C) epic
  D) eulogy
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  The correct answer is D .