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 161:

  This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.

  Use the excerpt to answer this question

  "they sang in the forlorn fields
  about their lives; songs
  of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
  for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
  in those days when a song beheld their lives;
  when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
  and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the oppression of women
  C) Joys of motherhood
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 162: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 164:

  Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.

  The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) hyperbole.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 165:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 166:

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

  In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is

  Options:
  A) both undersirable and unattainable
  B) attainable and desirable
  C) obnoxious but desirable
  D) desirable but unattainable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 167: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as Options:
  A) brave and resourceful
  B) frightened and beastly
  C) religious and orderly
  D) anarchic and savage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 168: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is Options:
  A) an irony
  B) a fable
  C) a masque
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 169: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with Options:
  A) disdain
  B) indifference
  C) honour
  D) kid gloves
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 170:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

  Options:
  A) his recent advances towards her
  B) the betrayal of her father's trust
  C) the betrayal of his wife's trust
  D) his condemnation of her choice of career
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  The correct answer is A .