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 1381:

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

  OKORO: I'll kill her today.

  IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,

  I say run![He pushes her gently but

  firmly towards her room]

  The event above happens in

  Options:
  A) lyara when Okoro discovrs Koko's infidelity
  B) Erhuwaren whn Koko suspects and accuses her husband
  C) Erhuwaren when Okoro suspects Koko of infidelity
  D) Erhuwaren before Koko's return from lyara
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1382:

  *For seven days it rained that June;
  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
  complained in his hair.
  John Updike, Wash

  The image set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) rain and flood in June
  B) discomfort and likely destruction
  C) the days of Noah
  D) an animal insects and fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1383:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1384:

  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 1385:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1386:

  These questions are based on Literary Appreciation.

  Use the quotation below to answer these two questions

  'Bash: You dumb skull of a bone head... you will face court martial for this. You look everywhere? You search inside toilet bowl?

  Wole Soyinka: King BaabuFrom the tone of the speech above the speaker is obviously

  Options:
  A) lackadaisical
  B) elated
  C) happy
  D) enraged
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1387:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1388:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

  'Wisely and slow. The stumble that run fast'.

  This note of caution comes from

  Options:
  A) Benvolio to Mercutio
  B) Capulet to Paris
  C) Friar to Romeo
  D) Nurse to Juliet.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1389: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) marriage
  B) fgighting
  C) honeymoon
  D) hunting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1390:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubijoins the farmer's revolt

  Options:
  A) to ensure it's success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .