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 71:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

  Options:
  A) take to prostition
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abando their husbands
  D) abadon their children
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 72:

  Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

  Options:
  A) Aroma
  B) Poetry
  C) Drama
  D) Prose
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 73:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

  Options:
  A) retrospection
  B) flashback
  C) historical drama
  D) dramatic shift
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 74: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression Options:
  A) Sestet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 75:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that

  Options:
  A) Farfrae's arrival spells Henchard's doom
  B) they employ each other
  C) they disagree over Abel Whittle
  D) the friendship ends too soon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 76:

  The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Symbolism
  C) Pathetic Fallacy
  D) Analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 77:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 78:

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

  '''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''

  The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the

  Options:
  A) misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
  B) outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
  C) sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
  D) ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 79: A close reading of The Victims reveals that Ogugua's pr-marital and extra-marital affairs are a reflection of her Options:
  A) innate promiscuity
  B) love of public scandals
  C) defiance of social norms
  D) self-hate.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 80:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '...And your MP with a shining head and triple chin Will mourn your fate in a supplementary question at Question Time'.

  These lines in the context of Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper', portray the MP as being

  Options:
  A) sympathetic
  B) sad
  C) indifferent
  D) hypocritical
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  The correct answer is D .