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 421: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In drama, the term climax is used Options:
  A) as a figure of speech connoting beauty
  B) for the point of highest dramatic tension
  C) when the crisis in the play is resolved
  D) when the hero's tragic flaw is revealed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 422:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary work, setting refers to the

  Options:
  A) starting point of the story
  B) sum total of physical, social and historical circumstances
  C) orderly arrangement of episodes
  D) point at which the fortunes of the hero begin to decline
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 423: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet compares bats with Options:
  A) sparrows
  B) swans
  C) swallows
  D) crows
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 424:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism isis better than aniamalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyon is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 425:

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

  The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

  Options:
  A) man
  B) blindness
  C) sleep
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 426:

  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.

  T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

  Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) night -fires going out
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 427:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is

  Options:
  A) story angle
  B) story line
  C) aside
  D) point of view
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 428:

  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 429:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks.

  Ezeulu does not want to refuse the whiteman's call and so he is sending his son!

  Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

  The lines above illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) deep metaphor
  B) extended proverb
  C) traditional parable
  D) local colour
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 430:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .