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 181: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.The character attributes of Attahiru qualify him as Options:
  A) an egocentric partriot
  B) a Muslim fanatic
  C) a religious martyr
  D) a political revolutionary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182:

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

  The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

  Options:
  A) joy
  B) hate
  C) love
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 183: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'On the rampage, Pip and off the rampage, rip; - such is Life!
  Joe summarized his wife's behaviour in this way after Mrs. Gergery's quarrel with Options:
  A) Pip
  B) Orlick
  C) Joe
  D) Biddy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 184:

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

  Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

  Options:
  A) Susan Henchard's sale
  B) The return of susan Henchard
  C) The skimmity-ride
  D) The disclosure of Elizabeth-Jane's identity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 185: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186:

  THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM WOLE SOYINKA (ED) POEMS OF BLACK AFRICA, E.K. SENANU AND T. VINCENT (EDS.) SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY AND E.W. PARKER (ED.) A PAGEANT OF LONGER POEMS.The effect of the repetition of the words

  'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  Options:
  A) a mood of bitterness is created
  B) the poet easily reveals his anger
  C) it captures the poet's desperation
  D) it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 187:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Point of denouement in a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) point at which the major character is shown in his true colours
  B) point of disagreement in a narrative
  C) point of the resolution of the puzzling issues
  D) cathartic point in a tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 188:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 189: "Behold her, single in the field
  You solitary Highland Lass!
  Reaping and singing, by herself
  Stop here, or gently pass!
  Alone she cuts and blinds the gram,
  And sings a melancholy strain,
  O listen! For the Vale profound
  Is overflowing with the sound.
  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of The Solitary Reaper above is Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) alxabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'

  Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir

  The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) meiosis
  B) epigram
  C) allusion
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .