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 41:

  "Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air.

  Kelara knelt down beside him.

  Amalia and her husband knelt down as well."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the actions of Meka, Kelara, Amalia and her husband signify

  Options:
  A) parade
  B) dance
  C) prayer
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 42: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate? Options:
  A) One between superior and inferior powers
  B) One of life and death
  C) One between Christians and Muslims
  D) One of the superiority of wills
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 43: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 44: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as Options:
  A) harmatia
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) epistasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 45:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  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 47:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The theme of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) dominant pre-occupation of the work
  B) interesting issues raised in the work
  C) different views on a particular topic
  D) psychological issues in the work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48:

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

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 49: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.Titubi joins the farmers' revolt Options:
  A) to ensure its success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 50: "Behold her, single in the field
  You solitary Highland Lass!
  Reaping and singing, by herself
  Stop here, or gently pass!
  Alone she cuts and blinds the gram,
  And sings a melancholy strain,
  O listen! For the Vale profound
  Is overflowing with the sound.
  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of The Solitary Reaper above is Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) alxabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .