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 61: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwrite
  B) by an unpopular novelist
  C) on a journey
  D) before the death of the author
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 62:

  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 63:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 64:

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

  To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  Options:
  A) stops the main story to narrate other events
  B) creates a lot of funny episodes
  C) puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  D) shows that Francis is weaks
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 65:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 66: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 67:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

  Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

  The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  Options:
  A) envy
  B) suspicion
  C) contempt
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 68:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 69:

  'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

  In this passage, axe of intemperance means

  Options:
  A) hot temper
  B) cool temper
  C) evil mind
  D) recklessness.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 70:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

  Either withdraw unto some private place,

  Or reason coldly of your grievances,

  Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

  This appeal is made by

  Options:
  A) Romeo to Mercutio
  B) Benvolio to Tybalt
  C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
  D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
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  The correct answer is D .