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:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

  Options:
  A) stage direction
  B) dramatic irony
  C) setting
  D) improvisation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 302:

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

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Where does the play takes place

  Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Aunt's place
  C) In Ofosu's place
  D) On the street
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 303:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'James started showing interest in Buchi a long time ago. In playing the hunter, he realised that he needed a bait.

  This turned out to be his frequent offer of assistance to the needy young woman. But Buchi has proved to be a difficult game.

  The more James trailed her the more he realised that she could not be easily caught.'The choice of words in the passage above is remarkable because it is

  Options:
  A) largely confusing
  B) very difficult
  C) quite appropriate
  D) drawn from hunting
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 304:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Point of denouement in a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) point at which the major character is shown in his true colours
  B) point of disagreement in a narrative
  C) point of the resolution of the puzzling issues
  D) cathartic point in a tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 305:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  Options:
  A) the relationship between a man and a fish
  B) the vain expectations of man
  C) life on the high seas
  D) a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 306: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 307: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is devised to Options:
  A) meet the ideological needs of lngsoc
  B) help devoted party men and women
  C) provide a medium of expression for world view only
  D) assist by cutting the choice of words for party members
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 308:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
  "for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

  The poetic device used in this expression is____

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) irony
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 309:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 310: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) foreshadowing
  C) interlude
  D) anti-climax
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  The correct answer is A .