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 431:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 432:

  Fatalism is crucial element in_________

  Options:
  A) melodrama
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) tragedy
  D) comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 433: Purgation of emotion, pity and fear is Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) catastrophe
  C) epilogue
  D) exposition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 434: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.'Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that Options:
  A) soldiers are generally wicked
  B) human nature has to do with a profession
  C) soldiers are characteristically gentle
  D) the latent brutality in man finds expression in war
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 435:

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

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 436: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
  B) Shortly before the beggars strike
  C) As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
  D) After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 437: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four Options:
  A) lines
  B) stanzas
  C) refrains
  D) poems
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 438: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Shakespeare depicts love and idealism through the Options:
  A) party at the Capulets'
  B) lovers' tomb at the end
  C) brawl between Romeo and Tybalt
  D) balcony scene in the second Act
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 439:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

  Options:
  A) lamentation over a dead friend
  B) lamentation over the passing of life
  C) reflection on the passing of life
  D) reflection on nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 440:

  A significant literary device employed by Morris in 'The Proud King' is that of________

  Options:
  A) Suspense
  B) Nemesis
  C) Agon
  D) Interlude
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  The correct answer is B .