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 331:

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

  Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because

  Options:
  A) of his great love for the whiteman
  B) he had come to distrust the power of Ulu
  C) he did not want Oduche to succeed him as chief priest
  D) he wanted a representative in the group in case they became powerful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 332: Leah was finally arrested by the police because she Options:
  A) was betrayed by an enemy
  B) was outwitted by the Fox
  C) did not offer a big enough bribe to the police
  D) bribed the wrong person
  E) became too militant.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 333:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the arena

  They began to sing my song,

  We could hear it faintly

  Passing through the air'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  What is the figure of speech used in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Irony
  C) Personification
  D) Simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 334:

  This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.

  Yaremi's main job is taffeta

  Options:
  A) mending
  B) making
  C) weaving
  D) dyeing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 335:

  'All was quiet in this park

  Until the wind, like a gasping messenger, announced

  The tyrant's coming

  Then did the branches talk in agony'.

  There is in line 2 ('like a gasping messenger...') an example of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metonymy
  C) alliteration
  D) simile
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 336: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 337: The speaker in 'When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to Options:
  A) to display bhis magical powers as a traditional priest
  B) show the poetic beauty of incantatory songs
  C) show the marvel about natural objects
  D) practise witchcraft on his enemies
  E) psychologically and magically disarm his enemies.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 338: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 339:

  What is the narrator of a poem called?

  Options:
  A) author
  B) speaker
  C) narrator
  D) Voice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 340:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.

  In the wrong skin.

  Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

  The passage above expresses the state of mind of

  Options:
  A) an alienated man
  B) an adventurer
  C) a renegade soldir
  D) a prisoner
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  The correct answer is A .