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 311:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  B) the harvest season came too early
  C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 312: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 313:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.

  Options:
  A) vague and prosaic.
  B) prosaic and poetic.
  C) archanic and vague.
  D) ambiguous and lyrical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 314:

  'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) assonance
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 315:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 316:

  This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.

  The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

  Options:
  A) Mr. Carrington
  B) O'Brien
  C) Eurasia
  D) Coworker Julius
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 317: The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is Options:
  A) action
  B) inertia
  C) nostalgia
  D) cowardice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 318:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'

  In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

  Options:
  A) passing of time and shortness of life
  B) swift passing of waves from shore to shore
  C) passing of time from hours to minutes and second
  D) movement of pebbles to the shore
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 319:

  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 320: The narrator in Mission to Kala is Options:
  A) Mongo Beti
  B) Medza
  C) Mama
  D) Niam
  E) Zambo.
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  The correct answer is B .