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 1261: This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.In the novel, the foil to Lahab's character is Options:
  A) Tanko
  B) AI-Amin
  C) Sagiir
  D) Saahir
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1262:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1263:

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

  ''' It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife.

  I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that... No, you may quarrel; but let it not end in fighting...''

  These words concern

  Options:
  A) Obika and his mother
  B) Obika and Okuata
  C) Akueke and her husband
  D) all the young men in the village
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1264:

  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 recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) immediacy
  C) alienation
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1265:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'I die, yet depart not,

  I am bound, yet soar free;

  Thou art and thou art not,

  And ever shall be!'

  'The City of Dreams' by Robert Buchanan. The literary device consciously used in the above extract is

  Options:
  A) metaphysical conceit
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) meiosis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1266: The main purpose of drama is to Options:
  A) tell the story of dead people
  B) teach us how to write
  C) educate us
  D) entertain us
  E) both educate and entertain us.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1267:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed

  Options:
  A) do not believe in victory
  B) are never willing to fight for their rights
  C) are no longer willing to fight for their right
  D) are determined to give meaning to their life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1268:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

  Options:
  A) regression
  B) cadence
  C) rhyme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1269:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1270: In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was Options:
  A) Christaki
  B) Roger
  C) Spiro
  D) Yani
  E) Larry
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  The correct answer is C .