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 81:

  Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  Options:
  A) Prosaic
  B) Lyrical
  C) Analogical
  D) Metaphorical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 82:

  And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied

  Like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even

  Jiggers cannot conquerHorny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

  Options:
  A) sole of a pauper
  B) sole of a soldier
  C) policeman
  D) madman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 83:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) contented
  B) indifferent
  C) anxious
  D) enthusiastic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 84:

  An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

  Options:
  A) props
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 85:

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

  'Withering, burn, ghost, a scatter, dusty, half-bare

  The above combination of words from Kwesi Brew's

  'The Dry Season' thematically suggests

  Options:
  A) destruction
  B) confusion
  C) desolation
  D) death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 86:

  Ahero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

  Options:
  A) Deuteragonist
  B) Periaktos
  C) Tragic hero
  D) Tragic flow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 87:

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimesit flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
  -Cynthia James; Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) auditory and visual
  C) tactile and auditory
  D) olfactory and tactile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 88: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by Options:
  A) movement from serious to the lighthearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 89: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy makes the novel realistic by Options:
  A) interspersing humour with seious narration
  B) denying the characters any from of transformation
  C) adhering strictly to autolographical facts
  D) narrating the story in the first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 90: 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 .