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 551:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where

  Options:
  A) writers have been sold
  B) writers work hard at their writings
  C) people discuss real writing
  D) writing materials are sold
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 552:

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

  The image of Beelzebub in the novel effectively captures the character of

  Options:
  A) Simon
  B) Ralph
  C) Bill
  D) Jack
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 553:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 554: The pauper in Richard Ntiru's poem of that title is Options:
  A) hungry,lonely and sad
  B) lonely, dirty but happy
  C) dirty, hungry and terrified
  D) hungry,lonely and diseased
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 555: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to Options:
  A) give her a befitting burial
  B) take good care of her children
  C) take another wife
  D) allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 556: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is Options:
  A) Claudius
  B) Lucianus
  C) Gozango
  D) Baptista
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 557:

  '' It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.'

  The picture presented above is one of

  Options:
  A) poverty in urban areas
  B) monotony of the town life
  C) landscape at sunrise
  D) sordid industrial town.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 558:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The central theme of the play is the

  Options:
  A) ills of modern days
  B) clash between tradition and modernity
  C) problem of courtship
  D) conflict between the old and the young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 559: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A line or a group of lines repeated in the course of a poem is called Options:
  A) chorus
  B) refrain
  C) repetition
  D) prologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 560: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The lines depict James as a Options:
  A) traditionalist
  B) christian
  C) pagan
  D) muslim
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  The correct answer is A .