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 1621:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

  "Those who have full breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me, and the old girls returned_______

  Options:
  A) front of the veranda of Okoro's house
  B) the-kitchen, upstairs
  C) Okoro’s front yard, down stage
  D) the direction of the kitchen, off stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1622:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1623:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because

  Options:
  A) the Ring was a meeting-warden for lovers
  B) the Ring was a spot for appointments of furtive kind
  C) Susan was ashamed to come over to his house
  D) his reputation as the church-warden and mayor was at stake
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1624: The antagonist in a tragedy is Options:
  A) any character in the tragedy
  B) the wife of the protagonist
  C) the character who provides comic relief
  D) the character set in opposition to the main character
  E) the leading chorus.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1625:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1626:

  A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) novella
  C) fable
  D) epistle
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1627: This question is based on Selec ted Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.&lsquo ...where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf. &rsquo The lines above in Hallowelps The Dining Table signify _______? Options:
  A) danger
  B) calmness
  C) pity
  D) saddness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1628:

  Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

  Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:

  Conspiring with him how to load and bless

  With fruit the vines that round the

  thatch-eves run;

  To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress

  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

  To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells

  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

  And still more, later flowers for bees,

  Until they think warm days will never cease,

  For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.

  The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) onomatopoeia.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1629:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1630: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to Options:
  A) Princess Evbakhavbokun and herchildren
  B) Glogbosere and the other Benin chiefs
  C) Captain Carter and the British soldiers
  D) Queen Victoria and the British official
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  The correct answer is D .