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 871:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Bigger kills Mary due to______?

  Options:
  A) Fear
  B) Hatred
  C) Envy
  D) Distrust
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 872: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) acted
  B) discussed
  C) read
  D) sung
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 873:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'And when He looks at the grimy coating,

  Caking off your emaciated skin,...'

  These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

  Options:
  A) the texture of the pauper's skin
  B) the coat the pauper was wearing
  C) the effect of the surroundings
  D) poverty and dirt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 874:

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

  The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

  Options:
  A) joy
  B) hate
  C) love
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 875: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  What causes the strained relationship between James and Lawyer B? Options:
  A) Betrayal of trust
  B) Standard of education
  C) Working experience
  D) Family differences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 876: Purgation of emotion, pity and fear is Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) catastrophe
  C) epilogue
  D) exposition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 877:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  'The earth has stopped breathing and sighed' illustrates__________

  Options:
  A) bathos
  B) paradox
  C) climax
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 878:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) onomatopeia
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 879:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  In the play, Soyinka's sympathies lie with the

  Options:
  A) exploited
  B) rich
  C) imprisoned
  D) accused
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 880:

  A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in a play to shed light on the present action is

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Flashback
  C) Interlude
  D) Cathersis
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  The correct answer is B .