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 31: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 32: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 33:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 34:

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

  The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of

  Options:
  A) lkaki
  B) Ekpe
  C) Udje
  D) Etiyeri
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 37: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The hoe is her barber'
  The line above is an example of Options:
  A) mtaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) personification
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 38:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 39: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to Options:
  A) discover the beauty of a literary work
  B) finds faults in a literary work
  C) analyse and evaluate a literary work
  D) compare literary works
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 40: A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept must be a Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortune
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .