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: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, the man is despised by the wife and family because he Options:
  A) does not give them sufficient money to maintain the house
  B) does not capitalize on his education and position to get ahead
  C) does not join Koomson's political party
  D) fails in his campaign to get into the government house
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 472: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) the world of demon lovers
  C) the river Alph
  D) a sunless sea
  E) sunny spots of greenery.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 473:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The story in the book is told from the point of view of

  Options:
  A) Nwabunor
  B) Obanua
  C) a first person narrator
  D) a third person narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 474:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 475: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'Me to the Orangery Solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale.
  Christopher Okigbo: Heavensgae
  The complexity of the poem can be ascribed to the poets use of Options:
  A) archaic diction
  B) structural inversion
  C) compound words
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 476:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Excitedly, Faku announced Garba's intention to marry her immediately and settle in the city. Garba was ''tired of the village'' and yearned to go '' back to civilization.'' Faku had caught the city fever too and could not wait to leave the village.

  The Stillborn by Zaynab Alkali.

  Which of the following words best describes the writer's attitude to urban life?

  Options:
  A) Pessimistic
  B) Optimistic
  C) Nonchanlant
  D) Cynical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 477:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 478: Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims? Options:
  A) An industriouswoman plagued by bad luck
  B) A quarrelsome woman
  C) A jealous rival
  D) A shrewd calculating woman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 479:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.

  Kabria's second child is

  Options:
  A) Ottu
  B) Adade
  C) Essie
  D) Obea
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 480: Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because Options:
  A) all his enemies has gone into exile
  B) he is a better fighter than Macduff
  C) he had already killed Banquo
  D) Lady Macbeth gives him courage
  E) the witches gave him an assurance
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  The correct answer is E .