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 331:

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

  The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  Options:
  A) sharks' predatory inclination
  B) futility of human struggle
  C) old man's lack of faith
  D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 332:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'

  In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  Options:
  A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  B) he cannot do good deeds
  C) action often conflicts with knowledge
  D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 333: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 334:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 335:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.

  Cynthia James: Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) olfactory and tactile
  C) auditory and visual
  D) tactile and auditory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 336: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) George
  B) Awere
  C) Hannah
  D) Awao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 337:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Comic relief is

  Options:
  A) the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
  B) a figure of speech used in comic theatre
  C) the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
  D) a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 338:

  In drama, comic reliefs often occur in_______

  Options:
  A) comedies
  B) tragedies
  C) historical plays
  D) romantic plays
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 339:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'

  Patricia Melo:The Killer

  The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

  Options:
  A) brace himself up for the action
  B) report the pig before killing it
  C) contemplate the killing of the pig
  D) justify the action of killing the pig
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 340:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Shelly, 'Ode to the West Wind'. The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .