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:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192:

  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

  Options:
  A) Catastasis
  B) Catharsis
  C) protasis
  D) Epitasis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 193:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 194:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.

  George Orwell: Animal Farm

  Form the passage above, the character being described is

  Options:
  A) enthusiastic
  B) altruistic
  C) cynical
  D) lazy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 195: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.According to the highest estimate, how many ships in the Turkish fleet were said to head for the Island of Cyprus? Options:
  A) 107
  B) 230
  C) 200
  D) 140
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 198:

  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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

  These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

  Options:
  A) appreciates the environment of his experience
  B) is insensitive to his experience
  C) is unable to believe his experience
  D) believes both his environment and experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 199:

  Okara's reminiscence in the "Piano and Drums" as to how he walks to the farm with no shoes, marching thorns and dangerous leafs, and still finds this enjoyable creates a feeling of___________

  Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) neglect of African culture for civilized styles
  C) clash of culture
  D) confusion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 200: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.The mob in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a monster and a snake
  B) a bad group
  C) demonstrators
  D) fighters
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  The correct answer is C .