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 231:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term assonance refers of

  Options:
  A) repetition of alphabets in lines of a poem
  B) agreement of vowel sounds in a line
  C) repetition of vowels in a line
  D) agreement of consonants in a line
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 232: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 233: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of the Options:
  A) bats
  B) scenery
  C) scene
  D) creatures
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 234:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The specie of conflict exemplified in the Native Son is that of_______

  Options:
  A) man against society
  B) man against nature
  C) man against culture
  D) man against man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 235:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

  Either withdraw unto some private place,

  Or reason coldly of your grievances,

  Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

  This appeal is made by

  Options:
  A) Romeo to Mercutio
  B) Benvolio to Tybalt
  C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
  D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 236:
  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 237:

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

  'Idoto' in Okigbo's 'The Passage' is the name of

  Options:
  A) the poet's mother
  B) the poet's village
  C) a village shrine
  D) a village stream
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 238:

  The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'

  This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to

  Options:
  A) the killing of Adetusa
  B) the crime of incest committed by King Odewale
  C) Aderopo's quarrel with King Odewale
  D) the banishment of Aderopo.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 239:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

  You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Mawdo
  B) her mother-in-law
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Tamsir
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 240:

  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 .