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 1481: Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two 'Abiku' poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) in each of the two poems, the voice of the Abiku is heard
  B) while the tone of Clark's poem is conciliatory, that of Soyinka is defiant
  C) it would appear that making body marks on the two Abiku has not served the customary purpose of stopping them from coming again
  D) as the two poet portray them, Clark's Abiku can choose to stay or not to stay, but Soyinka's Abiku cannot.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1482:

  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 1483: In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents Options:
  A) the oppression of whites by the Africans
  B) white people's fear by the Africans
  C) the black victimization of white people
  D) the oppression of the Africans by the white people
  E) the rebelion of the white people
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1484: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAn example of a narrative poem is ________? Options:
  A) elegy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1485:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  In the novel, Faku deserts Garba for

  Options:
  A) prostitution
  B) survival
  C) city life
  D) vengeance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1486: Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by ________ Options:
  A) movement from serious to the light-hearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1487:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!

  Life and desire and dreams and death

  Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

  The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) praise
  C) symbolism
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1488:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The most immediate service that Jero wishes to saddle MEMBER with at the end of the play is to

  Options:
  A) make him finance the building of a church
  B) use him to obtain land allocation
  C) use him to arrest Chume
  D) pay for his velvet cape
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1489:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

  Options:
  A) explains why the gods are not to blame
  B) narrates the life history of the hero
  C) reminds the principle character of thier functions
  D) explains to the audience the mimed action on the stage.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1490: 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 .