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 1511: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1512: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a Options:
  A) saga
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) harangue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1513:

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

  Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' is cast in the mould of

  Options:
  A) a dirge
  B) a gossip
  C) an epistle
  D) a ditty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1514:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) fable
  C) prose
  D) picaresque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1515: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  '' We are here to die of rage! say die of rage because this time the uncircumcised have gone too far...''
  The word uncircumcised in the statement above by Nti refers to Options:
  A) Nua and Mvondo
  B) the whites
  C) the people of Doum
  D) the white farmers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1516: In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that Options:
  A) music was more important than work
  B) boredom received more attention than suffering
  C) music was more pleasant than cries
  D) religion received more attention than the suffering slaves.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1517:

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

  What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) contrast between the old and the new
  B) conflict between belief and unbelief
  C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
  D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1518:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'Hurrah for Thunder'by Christopher Okigbo could be regarded as a call to

  Options:
  A) beware of the animals in the jungle
  B) beware of the effects of thunder
  C) condemn the destructive qualities of elephants
  D) be conscious and vigilant of man's abuse of power
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1519: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) assonance
  C) antithesis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1520:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

  "Those who have full breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me, and the old girls returned_______

  Options:
  A) front of the veranda of Okoro's house
  B) the-kitchen, upstairs
  C) Okoro’s front yard, down stage
  D) the direction of the kitchen, off stage
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  The correct answer is A .