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 791:

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

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 792: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as Options:
  A) circular
  B) episodic
  C) orgaanic
  D) open-ended
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 793:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.

  Move him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Wake, once,the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs. so dear achieved, are

  Sides Full nerved still warm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall?O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.

  THE POEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AS

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 794:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The dominant tone of the novel is one of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) anger
  C) despondency
  D) militancy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 795:

  Adeoti's "Ambush" ends on a note of___________

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) bright aspirations
  C) courage
  D) uncertainty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 796: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 797:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

  I summon up remembrance of things past,...

  Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

  The lines above contain the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) a motif
  B) irony
  C) sarcasm
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 798:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) nemesis
  C) catharsis
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 799:

  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 800: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .