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 101:

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

  The subject matter of the novel is

  Options:
  A) marital infidelity
  B) the evils of materialism
  C) child àbuse
  D) the gains of love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

  Options:
  A) non-concern for space
  B) willingness to take an apartment anywhere
  C) critical need for accommodation
  D) awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 103:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Which of the following qualities best describes Jero's ability to keep his followers?

  Options:
  A) He is a man of God
  B) He distributes gifts to his followers
  C) He foretells their future
  D) He manipulates them
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 104:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

  Read the excerpt and answer question
  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 105:

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

  Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a

  Options:
  A) set each for the upper and lower classes
  B) different set for each Act
  C) variety of sets to suit the subject matter
  D) single set in the whole play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The destruction of the conch along with Piggy's death in the novel suggests

  Options:
  A) degeneration into chaos
  B) the loss of an exquisitely beautiful thing
  C) that Ralph cannot summon a meeting anymore
  D) Jack's victory over Ralph
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 107:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

  Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

  Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) disgust
  B) indignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 108:

  'To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour'
  - William Blake
  To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
  The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) paradox
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 109:

  Which element of drama tells the actor what to do?

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) stage directions
  C) cast
  D) scenes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
  Options:
  A) double standard
  B) concept of love
  C) ideas about women
  D) celebration of industrialization
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  The correct answer is C .