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 581:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 582:

  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 583: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 584:

  When a writer deviates from the chronological arrangement of events in a literary piece, he uses ...

  Options:
  A) Anadiplosis
  B) Anachrony
  C) Chrestomathy
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 585:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The author's thematic concern is

  Options:
  A) the boy's assistance to the man
  B) life in a fishing community
  C) the achievements of the old man
  D) the ability to rise above defeat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 586:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 587:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The call made on Hamlet to avenge his father's death makes him

  Options:
  A) purposeful
  B) impoverished
  C) confused
  D) amused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 588:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

  Options:
  A) the serious is treated in a satirical way
  B) subordination of characterization to plot occurs
  C) music and dance predominate
  D) evil triumphs over good
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 589: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with Options:
  A) disdain
  B) indifference
  C) honour
  D) kid gloves
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 590:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .