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 611:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 612:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  In the novel the society puts high value on

  Options:
  A) male ascendancy
  B) procreation
  C) gender equity
  D) engalitarianism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 613: In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he Options:
  A) he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
  B) had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
  C) failed to bring back Niam's wife
  D) failed to understand his father.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 614: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Characterization in a novel refers to the Options:
  A) writer's opinion of the characters
  B) way the characters are revealed to the reader
  C) characters and the way they behave
  D) reader's opinion of the characters
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 615:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

  Options:
  A) serious
  B) comic
  C) satiric
  D) tragic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 616:

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

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 617:

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

  ...'the hawk will flutter and turn

  On its wings and swoop for the mouse,

  The dogs will run for the hare,

  The hare for its little life.'

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' mean that

  Options:
  A) this is a hunting season
  B) there is chaos
  C) the hare will be killed
  D) the hawk and the dogs are strong
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 618:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is

  Options:
  A) an omniscient narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) a scond person narrator
  D) a tird person narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 619:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) a ballad
  C) an elegy
  D) a pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 620: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.The constant companion of Nnaife's family are Options:
  A) poverty and hunger
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) disagreemnt and humiliation
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is A .