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 801:

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

  'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'

  The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  C) Mr. Good Country's son
  D) Jesus Christ
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 802: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption"Trust me. My duty is to convince her to play ball with him and then the usual commission keeps rolling in, shee you get?..."The speaker in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) Aloho
  B) Ogeyi
  C) Odili
  D) Ochuole
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 803:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

  Options:
  A) simultaneously
  B) intermittently
  C) in a single revolution of the sun
  D) within the same locale
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 804:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 805:

  'There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives!'

  The speaker uses a string of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) parables
  C) metaphors
  D) riddles
  E) understatements.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 806:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 807:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 808:

  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.

  T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

  Options:
  A) three trees on the low sky
  B) empty wine-skins
  C) spiritual rebirth
  D) night -fires going out
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 809: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 810:

  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 .