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 211:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

  Options:
  A) They are major figures in the drama
  B) They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
  C) The y were friends of the late Ogundele
  D) Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 212: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 213: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child Options:
  A) is reincarnated in the father
  B) is still in the custody of the spirits
  C) makes the spirits angry
  D) needs the uncle's support
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 214: 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 215:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Abbas the beggar is a symbol of

  Options:
  A) the end justifying the means
  B) the rich also crying
  C) pride before perdition
  D) courage amidst adversity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 216:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'James started showing interest in Buchi a long time ago. In playing the hunter, he realised that he needed a bait.

  This turned out to be his frequent offer of assistance to the needy young woman. But Buchi has proved to be a difficult game.

  The more James trailed her the more he realised that she could not be easily caught.'The choice of words in the passage above is remarkable because it is

  Options:
  A) largely confusing
  B) very difficult
  C) quite appropriate
  D) drawn from hunting
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 217: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
  Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
  The writer of the above passage is Options:
  A) jealous of rich and influential people
  B) overwhelmed by the power of money
  C) contemptuous of the poor
  D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 218: Based on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old Man and the Medal, for his sacrifices to the church, Meka gets Options:
  A) a place near an aged leper
  B) a land to build a new house
  C) appointed into the church elders' council
  D) the privilegde to choose a permanent place to sit
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 219:

  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 impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 220:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

  Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

  The character in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) talking
  B) sleeping
  C) reading a literature book
  D) day-dreaming
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  The correct answer is D .