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 471:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The Owl is used by Ojaide in this poem as a

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) symbol
  C) simile
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 472:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.The most significant factors driving members to Jero's church in the play are

  Options:
  A) poverty and dissatisfaction
  B) fulfilment and security
  C) wealth and ignorance
  D) poverty and lust for power
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 473:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Serah dies of

  Options:
  A) haemorrhoids
  B) gunshot wounds
  C) asthma
  D) asphyxiation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 474:

  She said you just had to make an emotional commitment in marriage. It was like skiing, you could not see in advance what would happen but you had to let go. Maybe that was why I failed, because I didn't know what I had to let go of. For me it hadn't been like skiing, it was more like jumping off a cliff. That was the feeling I had all the time I was married, in the air, going down, waiting for the smash at the bottom.

  The passage indicates that the author's experience in marriage was

  Options:
  A) exhilarating like skiing
  B) steeped in boredom and monotony
  C) full of fear of the unknown
  D) fraught with grief and despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 475: '...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he Options:
  A) he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  B) exiled Aderopo from his presence
  C) treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  D) no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 476:

  A poem is said to be good if it________

  Options:
  A) has elevated style
  B) has rhyme and reason
  C) is difficult to understand
  D) has a regular rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 477:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 478:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 479:

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

  The major concern of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) promotion of simple, rural existence
  B) need for women to assert themselves
  C) clash of the old and the new
  D) corrupt nature of urban life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 480:

  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 .