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 1241: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child Options:
  A) is reincarnated in the father
  B) is still in the custody of the spirits
  C) makes the spirits angry
  D) needs the uncle's support
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1242:

  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.

  ''They too are the earth

  Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.

  Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

  Options:
  A) material for the shoes of the poor
  B) repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
  C) hope of the oppressed for a better life
  D) oppression of the dispossessed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1243: Which of the following adjectives best describes the character of Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart? Options:
  A) Gentle
  B) Quick tempered
  C) Considerate
  D) Meek
  E) Wicked
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1244:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1245: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as Options:
  A) circular
  B) episodic
  C) orgaanic
  D) open-ended
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1246:

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

  '....Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It's the dry season, child.'The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in

  Options:
  A) front of the verandah of Okoro's house
  B) Okoro's front yard, downstage
  C) the direction of the kitchen, offstage
  D) the kitchen, upstage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1247:

  These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

  A play which mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.

  Options:
  A) COMEDY
  B) A FARCE
  C) SATIRE
  D) A TRAGIC-COMEDY
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1248: In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as Options:
  A) welcome and totally pleasant
  B) unwelcome and unpleasant
  C) dangerous and uninviting
  D) seductive and threatening
  E) beautiful and wholesome.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1249:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an anagnorisis
  B) a tragic flaw
  C) a catharsis
  D) a catastrophe
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1250: 'She came in silken Drapes' is about the Options:
  A) virtures of love
  B) killing of a coral snake
  C) danger of false love
  D) beautiful butterfly
  E) sleeping leopards.
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  The correct answer is A .