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 1711:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

  your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

  I think ....

  CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

  JERO: You must take her home tonight...

  Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  Options:
  A) keep his secret secret
  B) get the beating out of the way quickly
  C) enable jero get into his house
  D) keep Chume's loyalty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1712:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The play is concerned principally with

  Options:
  A) presenting the problems of social class and British mannerism
  B) changing the traditional view about comedy in England
  C) the construction and handling of situations and incidents
  D) the presentation of a society without morals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1713: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes Options:
  A) an object of religious worship
  B) the poet's mother
  C) the poet's cultural traditions
  D) a river in the poet's village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1714:

  Ahero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

  Options:
  A) Deuteragonist
  B) Periaktos
  C) Tragic hero
  D) Tragic flow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1715: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  The outdooring ceremony of Araba's child, fixed for the fifth day after his birth, is opposed to by Naana because the child Options:
  A) is reincarnated in the father
  B) is still in the custody of the spirits
  C) makes the spirits angry
  D) needs the uncle's support
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1716: In 'Salute to the Elephant', the poet Options:
  A) warns about the danger of elephants
  B) tells the story of Elephants
  C) describes the attributes of the elephants
  D) shows where to find elephants
  E) wants the destructions of elephants
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1717: The night is significant in 'Nightfall in Soweto' because Options:
  A) people stay in their houses
  B) crimes are committed at night
  C) the people can rest their tired bones at night
  D) black people are persecuted even in their own homes at night
  E) night brings alot of enjoyment
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1718:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1719:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

  Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) anecdotes
  C) prologue
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1720:

  The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

  Options:
  A) objective
  B) first-person
  C) subjective
  D) third-person
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  The correct answer is B .