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 711:

  The literary term for conflict in literature is_________

  Options:
  A) Agon
  B) Hubris
  C) Hamartia
  D) Anaphora
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 712:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The success of the novel lies in the author's

  Options:
  A) realistic portrayal of Laye's conurtship with Marie
  B) effective use of sociological and fictional materials
  C) recreation of an African childhood in Conakry
  D) use of traditional elements for colour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 713: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to Options:
  A) the thought police
  B) individuals
  C) the government
  D) the party
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 714:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 715:

  "Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

  Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

  Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

  And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

  Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

  You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

  Options:
  A) clean up broken bottles
  B) come to self-knowledge
  C) realize your vision is blurred
  D) surrender to your weakness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 716:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Shelly, 'Ode to the West Wind'. The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 717:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 718:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 719:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The friendship between Laye and Marie lasted because

  Options:
  A) they were schoolmates
  B) they had mutual respect for each other
  C) his uncle approved of her
  D) Marie was a beautiful girl
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 720:

  "The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"

  The poet in the excerpt above uses

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) aliteration
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  The correct answer is B .