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 1681:

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

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1682: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The central conflict in the play is Options:
  A) religious
  B) romantic
  C) generational
  D) communal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1683:

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

  No sense of mission sustains them.'

  These lines from Odia Of Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals express

  Options:
  A) a longing for the past
  B) a lack of grogress
  C) the weight of tradition
  D) an impatient attitude
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1684:

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

  '...princes master their feelings to fulfil their duties 'Others' bend their heads and, in silence, accept a destiny that oppresses them. That, briefly put, is the internal ordering of our society, with its absurd divisions....'

  In the above excerpt from her letter to Mawdo Ba, Aissatou sees society as

  Options:
  A) benefiting the ruling classes
  B) unequal and unjust
  C) oppressing the working classes
  D) giving every person his just deserts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1685:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'On the broken walls,

  Bats hang away from the sun

  Shadows of an ancient stranger

  Cast their presence over our shoulders

  A pathway leads to the abandoned gate.' Mazisi Kunene:The Fearful Ruin

  The dominant mood in the excerpt above is that of

  Options:
  A) exhilaration
  B) pleasure
  C) rage
  D) terror
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1686: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue? Options:
  A) Lament
  B) Ode
  C) Sonnet
  D) Epic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1687:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Aesthetics in literature has to do with the creation of

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) lines
  C) beauty
  D) themes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1688:

  'When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the "obi" He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur'

  This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

  Options:
  A) weary lazy people
  B) very docile people
  C) peace-loving people
  D) military weak people
  E) inferior beings compare to white people.h
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1689: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1690:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

  'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) Ogeyi
  B) Alice
  C) Ayo
  D) Mrs Obi
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  The correct answer is D .