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 551:

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

  The dominant images in the novel are those of

  Options:
  A) death and time
  B) filth and time
  C) death and decay
  D) filth and decay
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 552:

  The most dominant poetic device used in Okara's 'Panio and Drums' is_______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Symbolism
  C) Pathetic Fallacy
  D) Analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 553: As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because Options:
  A) because he wants to patronize the local drink
  B) he is very happy to return to his village
  C) he is very thirsty
  D) he wants to pick up courage to face his father
  E) his journey has been very successful.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 554: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hardy makes the novel realistic by Options:
  A) interspersing humour with seious narration
  B) denying the characters any from of transformation
  C) adhering strictly to autolographical facts
  D) narrating the story in the first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 555:

  "Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

  Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

  Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

  And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

  Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

  You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

  Options:
  A) clean up broken bottles
  B) come to self-knowledge
  C) realize your vision is blurred
  D) surrender to your weakness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 556:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?

  Options:
  A) Rigours of formal courtship
  B) Being introduced to a wife
  C) Demands by in-laws
  D) Demands by the wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 557:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''

  Achebe's conclusion was that

  Options:
  A) the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
  B) very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
  C) a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
  D) the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 558: Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando Options:
  A) defeacted charles in wrestling contest
  B) was in love with Rosalind
  C) was preferred by the people to himself
  D) was more educated than himself
  E) ran away from home
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 559: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 560:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

  Options:
  A) grasshoppers
  B) bed-bugs
  C) bat
  D) cockroaches
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  The correct answer is B .