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 1501:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The real victims are

  Options:
  A) Ndidi and Ogo
  B) Nwanze and Obanua
  C) Ubaka and Bomboy
  D) Nwabunor and Ogugua
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1502:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The predominant use of the third-person pronoun in a novel creates a

  Options:
  A) sense of detachment on the part of the writer
  B) sense of detachment on the part of the reader
  C) psychological affinity with the characters
  D) balance of opinion among the characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1503:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

  Options:
  A) grasshoppers
  B) bed-bugs
  C) bat
  D) cockroaches
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1504:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The play is

  Options:
  A) a melodrama
  B) a tragedy
  C) an epic
  D) a farce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1505:

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

  'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  B) the harvest season came too early
  C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1506:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1507: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is Options:
  A) exploitation and cruelty
  B) retributive justice
  C) class segregation
  D) totalitarian dictatorship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1508:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________

  Options:
  A) he prefers lago
  B) Othello is a moor
  C) Rodgerigo woos her first
  D) Desdemona is too young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1509:

  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.

  
  The theme of the poem is__________

  Options:
  A) drought and heat
  B) abomination and retribution
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and disease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1510:

  Use excerpt below to answer questions

  "Now, by yond marble
  heaven,
  In the due reverence of a sacred vow
  I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)

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  The prevailing activity in the extract is

  Options:
  A) the vow of revenge and pledge of loyalty by Iago to Othello
  B) evident of the conspiracy between Iago and Othello
  C) the vow by Iago to revenge upon Othello
  D) reflective of Othello's rage
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  The correct answer is A .