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 311: Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given wordAccount Options:
  A) surmount
  B) acom
  C) aground
  D) astound
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 312:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The play is concerned principally with

  Options:
  A) presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
  B) changing the traditional view about comedy in England
  C) the construction and handling of situations and incidents
  D) the presentation of a society without morals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 313:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'I cannot blind myself

  To putrefying carcasses in the market place

  Pulling giant vultures

  From the sky.

  Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?

  The tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) anger
  C) mourning
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 314:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
  B) set of three players written by the same authors
  C) collection of three poems of equal length
  D) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 315:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange', the bird's reply concerns

  Options:
  A) the coming of the tide
  B) the uncertainty of the future
  C) market days
  D) mother's visit to the market
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 316: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm appeals to the readers' sense of Options:
  A) sight and taste
  B) feeling and sight
  C) smell, taste and hearing
  D) sight, smell and hearing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 317: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 318: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as Options:
  A) harmatia
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) epistasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 319: 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.The dominant image in Adeoti's Hard Lines is Options:
  A) tactile
  B) auditory
  C) gustatory
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 320: Medza's Mission To Kala was important mainly because it Options:
  A) helped him to make acquaintance with his relations in Kala
  B) enabled him to discover Edima
  C) gave him the glory of bringing back Niam's wife
  D) made him discover the realities of the condition of colonized people.
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  The correct answer is D .