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 1321:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The main significance of the fire in the novel is to

  Options:
  A) provide warmth
  B) roast meat
  C) provide warning
  D) provide signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1322:

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

  '...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

  In the moon-steeped ponds;

  There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

  Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

  Dream suggest that

  Options:
  A) even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  B) nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  C) there is harmony in nature
  D) there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1323: 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 1324: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllables are written in capital lettersJudiciary Options:
  A) judiciaRY
  B) JUdiciary
  C) judiCIAry
  D) juDIciary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1325:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

  Options:
  A) death and disappointment
  B) appearance and reality
  C) life and disappointment
  D) love and death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1326:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  Nkem leaves Odilis house because

  Options:
  A) she is not afaithful wife
  B) she wants to keep her marriage
  C) of pressure from outsiders
  D) she is barren
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1327:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The play is preoccupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from male domination
  D) women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1328: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  A reference beyond the immediate purview of what is being presented is known as Options:
  A) allusion
  B) diversion
  C) inversion
  D) imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1329:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.Piano and Drums according to Okara's Piano and Drums are musical instruments of __________

  Options:
  A) contradictory tunes
  B) complementary tunes
  C) different cultural milieus
  D) different rhythmic appeals
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1330:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .