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 811: The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) climax
  C) peripety
  D) euphemism.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 812: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The stage direction at the end of the play reveals Options:
  A) the actors in a changing room
  B) Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
  C) Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlights
  D) the Dirctor making a farewell speech.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 813:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  Naana's attitude is one of

  Options:
  A) contempt
  B) neutrality
  C) fulfilment
  D) enthusiasm
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 814:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 815:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 816: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that Options:
  A) the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb
  B) society is incurable
  C) man is a fateful being
  D) the evils that men do live after them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 817:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) the account of the travails of a character in novle
  B) a record of the writer's experiences during a journey
  C) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
  D) the account of the experiences of an indiviual during his lifetime
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 818:

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

  'When our Dead come with their Dead

  When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

  These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

  Options:
  A) the way in which the dead communicate with us
  B) the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  C) the elders' lack of sophistication
  D) our inability to understand our ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 819: 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 820: This question is based on General Literary principleMyths differ from legend inn that myths Options:
  A) have more of the historical background and less of the supernatural
  B) are less concerned with moral didacticism
  C) are more concerned with moral didactism
  D) have less of historical background and more of the supernatural
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  The correct answer is B .