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 1671:

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

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1672: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1673:

  A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) interlude
  C) flashback
  D) foreshadowing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1674: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  The play is about Options:
  A) resistance to British administration
  B) opposition to Christianity
  C) disunity among the Hausa state
  D) unity in the caliphate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1675:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1676:

  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.

  The stanza from of Mapanje's When this Carnival Finally Closes is

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an irregular verse
  C) an address
  D) a free verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1677:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1678: "He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toes up so that they pointed to the sky"Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal,the description above is in reference to the foot of Options:
  A) Kelara
  B) Meka
  C) Egamba
  D) Mvondo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1679: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1680:

  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.

  The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

  Options:
  A) blood thirsty
  B) brave
  C) humane
  D) fearful, yet patriotic
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  The correct answer is A .