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 1081: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1082:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1083: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the novel explores the theme of Options:
  A) child quest of an African woman
  B) exploitation of the African woman
  C) sex discrimination in Ghana
  D) women liberation in Nigeria
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1084: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1085:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A foil in drama is also known as

  Options:
  A) flat character
  B) protagonist
  C) round character
  D) antagonist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1086: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1087: this Question is based on J.P. Clark''s The Wives'' Revolt.The plot of the play is lineal as reflected in the Options:
  A) episodic nature of the play
  B) movement of the women
  C) arrangement of the events in the play
  D) progression of the argument of Okoro
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1088:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  The play reaches a turning point when

  Options:
  A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
  B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
  C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
  D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1089: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
  Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1090:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .