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 191:

  The theme that runs through Hallowell's Dining Table is that of________

  Options:
  A) Conflict
  B) Brutality
  C) Poverty
  D) Loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 192:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The story of the play would have been different but for

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
  B) Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
  C) the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
  D) Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 193: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 194: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 195:

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

  Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

  Options:
  A) enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
  B) dispossessing him of his piece of land
  C) conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
  D) organizing a deceitful dancing competition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  In Adah's view, the white society in the novel is one in which

  Options:
  A) there is communal feeling
  B) neighbourliness is lacking
  C) neighbours live happily
  D) members are unifriendly
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 198:

  '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-BugThe most dominant figure of speech in the excerpts above is

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 199:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  The leaves are withered. Roses fold and shrink

  Dog, the panting athlete shows his tongue A dwarled shadow flees. Hides under legs. Nuts

  Wrinkle and crack

  'Poems in Four Parts' by W.Kamera

  One dominant image presented in the poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) spent life
  B) summer
  C) death
  D) tiredness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 200:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .