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 1261:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

  Options:
  A) land dispute
  B) murder of Akukalia
  C) intervention of Captain Winterbottom
  D) siting of the colonial adminstrative headquarters at Okperi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1262:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A burlesque is

  Options:
  A) an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
  B) a sentimental comedy
  C) an account of a famous person's life
  D) a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1263: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Emir Lawrence's is not delivered;
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybalt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1264:

  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.

  There is a predominance of words associated with________

  Options:
  A) governance
  B) nature
  C) nurture
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1265:

  'Have you got any hands today?

  'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

  'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

  'No thank you'.

  In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

  Options:
  A) syncedoche
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1266:

  'poisonous pleasure of wine' illustrates the use of_______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) metaphor
  C) oxymoron
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1267:

  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 1268:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is

  Options:
  A) one of superiority
  B) a war of attrition
  C) one of vengeance
  D) a jihad
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1269:

  Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Concrete
  C) Conflict
  D) Confident
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1270:

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

  '...Tide and market come and go

  And so shall your mother.'

  The above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Streamside

  Exchange' depict the

  Options:
  A) variation of season
  B) changing periods of marketing
  C) constancy of nature
  D) importance of living
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  The correct answer is C .