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 31: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 32: These questions are based on general Literary principlesIn drama drama dramaturge is he who Options:
  A) writes or edits plays
  B) directs a play
  C) acts a film
  D) features in a play
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 33:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 34: This question is based on Literary AppreciationIf I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of Options:
  A) plagiarism
  B) anaphora
  C) paralipsis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 35:

  A chapter in a piece of drama is a

  Options:
  A) act
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  The novel is about growth because

  Options:
  A) Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
  B) of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
  C) Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Henchard gradually attains self-awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 38:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 39:

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

  '...Tide and market come and go

  And so shall your mother.'

  The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

  Exchange' depict the

  Options:
  A) variation of season
  B) changing periods of marketing
  C) constancy of nature
  D) importance of living
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 40:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  Which of the following could be applicable to all genres?

  Options:
  A) Symbolism
  B) Rhythm
  C) Action
  D) Narration
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  The correct answer is A .