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 1991: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1992: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.Brigadier General Johnson's plan to assassinate President Monye is revealed to Options:
  A) Biola Denji
  B) the SAB superior
  C) the President's ADC
  D) a friend
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1993:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1994:

  From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.

  The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) understatement
  C) sarcasm
  D) synecdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1995: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  The play is about Options:
  A) resistance to British administration
  B) opposition to Christianity
  C) disunity among the Hausa state
  D) unity in the caliphate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1996:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

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

  The play is pre occupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from males domination
  D) Women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1997:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'We have come to the crossroads

  And I must either leave or come with you

  I lingered over the choice

  But in the darkness of my doubts

  You lifted the lamp of love

  And I saw in your face

  The road that I should take',

  'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

  The poem ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) indecision
  B) despair
  C) hope
  D) determination
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1998:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  Othello kills himself with a

  Options:
  A) bottle
  B) sword
  C) gun
  D) knife
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1999: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.The theme of Eliot's The Journey of Magi is Options:
  A) nature
  B) journey
  C) quest for salvation
  D) escape from persecution
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2000:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

  Options:
  A) humility
  B) heroism
  C) nobility
  D) haughtiness
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  The correct answer is D .