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 1401: The 'Myth of the Bagre' is recited at the Options:
  A) funeral of young men
  B) funeral of young women
  C) funeral of old men and woman
  D) coming of age of young men and women
  E) return of the ancestors.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1402:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1403:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

  Options:
  A) defiance and protest
  B) arrogance and complacency
  C) nonchalance and pride
  D) violence and aggression
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1404: Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because Options:
  A) he was very hungry after his period of fasting
  B) the Yam won the agriculture contest
  C) it belonged to the Royal House
  D) it symbolized the acqusition of Power
  E) he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1405: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1406:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The pot of the novel revolves around

  Options:
  A) the adventure of a great fish
  B) a man's adventure on the sea
  C) a man's fightwith a great fish
  D) a boy's fight with a great fish
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1407: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home', the return of the successful scholar is not fulfilling because Options:
  A) the acievement sems out of touchwith his society back home
  B) the tropical atmosphere is full of happiness
  C) the dispensation he meets provides mixed satisfaction
  D) he has become indifferent to his own society.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1408:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.

  But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army'.

  Hemingway 'Farewell to Arms'

  The passage above is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbolism
  B) juxtaposition
  C) understatement
  D) didactism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1409:

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

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1410:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;

  The speaker in the statement above is being

  Options:
  A) symbolical
  B) analogical
  C) metaphorical
  D) parabolical
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  The correct answer is B .