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 131:

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

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 132:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.

  It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.

  The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

  Options:
  A) Binetou and Modou Fall
  B) Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
  C) Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
  D) Aissatou and Ramatoulaye
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 133: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) foreshadowing
  C) interlude
  D) anti-climax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 134:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 135:

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

  '...no difference at all between the '' whitemen'' and their apes the layers and the merchants and now apes of the apes our Party men ...'

  The statement above refers to Koomson's

  Options:
  A) commitment to the plight of the poor man
  B) reaction to the politics of betrayal
  C) change of attitude to the plight of the poor man
  D) disgust with the ''whitemen'' who are apes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 136: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 137: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 138:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 139:

  "They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,

  Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels

  Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) mixed metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 140:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) limerick
  C) tercet
  D) wit
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  The correct answer is D .