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 651:

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

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 652: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 653: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.The Fulani Creation Story' suggests that the basic problem of man is Options:
  A) blindness
  B) worry
  C) death
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 654: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The central conflict in the play is Options:
  A) religious
  B) romantic
  C) generational
  D) communal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 655: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The end of Give Me The Minstrel's seatseems to suggest that one needs the Options:
  A) support of others
  B) complete command of one's wives
  C) support of one's kinsmen
  D) aid of pots
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 656: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.The theme of the poem Give me The Minstrel's seat centres on Options:
  A) fortune
  B) marriage
  C) companionship
  D) divorce
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 657:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 658:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Poor bastard,

  Dumped on the ground to make room

  For his nocturnal fathers,

  Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights

  Among the steaming pots of food

  And walking rats.'

  ''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana

  The picture presented above is one of

  Options:
  A) loneliness
  B) hunger
  C) desolation
  D) squalor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 659:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'

  The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

  Options:
  A) enjambment
  B) caesura
  C) apostrophe
  D) scansion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 660: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .