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 401:

  '...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'

  In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

  Options:
  A) living according to nature
  B) the spirit of communal living
  C) the ancestral spirit
  D) the virtures of self reliance
  E) traditional festivals
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 402: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A group of three lyric stanzas in classical Greek poetry is referred to as Options:
  A) triplet
  B) triolet
  C) trilogy
  D) triad
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 403:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Abbas the beggar is a symbol of

  Options:
  A) the end justifying the means
  B) the rich also crying
  C) pride before perdition
  D) courage amidst adversity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 404:

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

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 405: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New ManIn terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as Options:
  A) conformists
  B) liberals
  C) fanatics
  D) puritans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 406: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.How does Question Gertrude finally die? Options:
  A) Through strangulation
  B) By venomed sword
  C) from poisoned drink
  D) of snake bite
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 407:

  Aloho begins her harvest of corruption when____________

  Options:
  A) she found out the truth about Chief Ade Amaka
  B) she discovered she was 3 months pregnant and abortion was impossible
  C) her best friend warned her about the deceitfulness of Chief Ade Amaka
  D) she eventually died after giving birth to a baby girl
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 408:

  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 409:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) peripeteia
  C) purgation
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 410:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .