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 441:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  The leaves are withered. Roses fold and shrink

  Dog, the panting athlete shows his tongue A dwarled shadow flees. Hides under legs. Nuts

  Wrinkle and crack

  'Poems in Four Parts' by W.Kamera

  One dominant image presented in the poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) spent life
  B) summer
  C) death
  D) tiredness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 442:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Serah dies of

  Options:
  A) haemorrhoids
  B) gunshot wounds
  C) asthma
  D) asphyxiation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 443:

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

  A paradox is

  Options:
  A) applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
  B) a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
  C) an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
  D) an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 444:

  "...If someone threw you a rope when you were

  Drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you

  Don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I

  Mean?"Based on the novel "Piggy's",the "rope" and the doctor's prescription refers to the

  Options:
  A) pig
  B) beast
  C) conch
  D) smoke signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 445:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

  Options:
  A) They are major figures in the drama
  B) They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
  C) The y were friends of the late Ogundele
  D) Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 446: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy makes the novel realistic by Options:
  A) interspersing humour with seious narration
  B) denying the characters any from of transformation
  C) adhering strictly to autolographical facts
  D) narrating the story in the first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 447:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

  Options:
  A) taste raw and black pepper
  B) sleep in solitary cell
  C) drink a bowl of garri
  D) pay a fine of ten shillings
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 448:

  In Herbert's "The Pulley", God's supremacy is exemplified through______

  Options:
  A) His withholding of the gift of rest
  B) the insatiable nature of man's needs
  C) His unending love for mankind
  D) His blessings of man with many gifts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 449:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 450:

  Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,

  'He's coming', she said 'i heard the gate open.'In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) pity
  C) comic relief
  D) suspense
  E) characters.
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  The correct answer is D .