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 351:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  'But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.

  The expression hags and witches refers to

  Options:
  A) old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
  B) the three women who turned into goats
  C) all the women in the play
  D) handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 352:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In their fight, the women settle at Eyara in order to_______?

  Options:
  A) Cure cross-piece
  B) Hurt their husbands
  C) Forestall reconciliation
  D) Seeks peace
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 353:

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the important tales of heroes of the past era
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 354: In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that Options:
  A) music was more important than work
  B) boredom received more attention than suffering
  C) music was more pleasant than cries
  D) religion received more attention than the suffering slaves.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 355: Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of Options:
  A) power
  B) adventure
  C) his tribe
  D) divination.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 356:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a

  Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) comic scene
  C) comic relief
  D) tragi-comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 357: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a Options:
  A) bicycle owner
  B) chief clerk
  C) chief messenger
  D) deputy to Jero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 358:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) tragdy
  C) farce
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 359:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 360:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) contrast
  C) couplet
  D) diatribe
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  The correct answer is A .