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 1131:

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

  T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

  Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) night -fires going out
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1132:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) creation and resolution of conflicts
  B) sale of Henchard's wife
  C) exploration of comic plot
  D) wheat business in Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1133:

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

  In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

  Options:
  A) prostitution
  B) survival
  C) city life
  D) vengeance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1134:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is

  Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) auditory
  C) tactile
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1135: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native SonThe story is narrated using the Options:
  A) Omniscient
  B) limited omniscient
  C) objective
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1136:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

  Options:
  A) the humiliation that is in old age
  B) man's refudeal to grow old
  C) different types of characters in the story
  D) the failing productivity that accompanies old age
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1137:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

  The play is mostly written in

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) metres
  C) foot
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1138: "Of o cam fastem nut one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already. He'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog..." Shakespeare, Othello
  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) drunkard
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1139:

  A play in which the acts succeed on another without probable or necessary sequence is

  Options:
  A) Episodic
  B) Simple
  C) Linear
  D) Convoluted
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1140:

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

  The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

  Options:
  A) one of the totems of Idoto
  B) the only totem of Idoto
  C) the abundance of oilbean trees by the river
  D) the use of the oilbean for magical purposes
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  The correct answer is A .