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 441: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  The attitude of Nnu Ego when she was told that her >i>Chi would not give her a child is one of Options:
  A) indifference
  B) despair
  C) apathy
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 442:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''

  The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

  The description above suggests

  Options:
  A) urban disorder
  B) a labyrinth
  C) clutter
  D) disharmony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 443: 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 444:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,

  Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

  Options:
  A) fragility
  B) pleasure
  C) comedy
  D) romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 445:

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

  The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

  Options:
  A) one of the totems of Idoto
  B) the only totem of Idoto
  C) the abundance of oilbean trees by the river
  D) the use of the oilbean for magical purposes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 446:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The theme of the poem is__________

  Options:
  A) drought and heat
  B) abomination and retribution
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and disease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 447:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

  The furrow followed free;

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea...'

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.

  Coleridge

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 448:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
  B) set of three players written by the same authors
  C) collection of three poems of equal length
  D) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 449:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

  Options:
  A) herselfas the parent of a nameless child
  B) the world's concern about her breaking social law
  C) herself as a spouseless mother
  D) her inexperience in childcare
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 450:

  How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .