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 761:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Whom do you consider to be Ezeulu's closest friend and confidant in Umuaro?

  Options:
  A) Naka of Umuneora
  B) Ogbuefi Akuebue
  C) Nwokeke Nnaberi
  D) The priest of Idemili
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 762:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 763:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 764:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 765:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

  The play portrays the judiciary as

  Options:
  A) unserious and lenient
  B) consistent and just
  C) corrupt and weak
  D) patronising and self-righteous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 766:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 767: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) assonance
  C) antithesis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 768:

  "Full fathom five thy father lies

  Of his bones are corals made

  Those are pearls that were his eyes

  Nothing of him that doth fade."The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is

  Options:
  A) baab
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 769:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  One of the enriching features of the play is the

  Options:
  A) matchmaking attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) use of rural and urban settings
  D) lopsided resolution of conflicts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 770:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .