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 631: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 632: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of her love for Agbadi
  B) that is the tradition
  C) her father is dead
  D) of the safety of her child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 633: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  The literary device used in the excerpt is
  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) simile
  C) sarcasm
  D) bathos
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 634:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The success of the novel lies in the author's

  Options:
  A) realistic portrayal of Laye's conurtship with Marie
  B) effective use of sociological and fictional materials
  C) recreation of an African childhood in Conakry
  D) use of traditional elements for colour
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 635:

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) She falls asleep
  B) She is dead
  C) She is awake
  D) She runs away
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 636:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm,

  The thunderstorm begins with

  Options:
  A) rain from the west
  B) rain from the east
  C) clouds from the west
  D) clouds from the east
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 637: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on Options:
  A) childbirth
  B) wealth
  C) male child
  D) female child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 638:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '

  The lines above in the play are delivered by

  Options:
  A) Kate
  B) Tony
  C) Marlow
  D) Constance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 639:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'Here lies a great and mighty king

  Whose promise none relies on

  He never said a foolish thing

  Not ever did a wise one'.

  The lines above could best from an

  Options:
  A) epistle
  B) episode
  C) epiphany
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 640:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .