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 571:

  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 572: The Yoruba incantatory poem, 'When a Strainer Takes in Water', is meant to be recited in order to Options:
  A) excape capture
  B) promote sales
  C) ensure good harvest
  D) escape retribution
  E) prevent road mishaps
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 573:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to

  Options:
  A) salvation
  B) despondence
  C) poverty
  D) fate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 574: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Satirical writing employs Options:
  A) synechdoche
  B) irony
  C) onomatipoeia
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 575:

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

  ''...It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.

  We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.''

  In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

  Options:
  A) moderation
  B) bravery
  C) cowardice
  D) sitting on the fence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 576:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The language of the play is

  Options:
  A) ambiguous
  B) condemnatory
  C) apolitical
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 577:

  The doctors looked at chris johannes.

  They were both dead. They kept the place up with their bodies so that we could get out!'a mine boy cried and begin to sob (Mine Boy).

  The death of Chris and Johannes is symbolic because

  Options:
  A) it shows how black and white can and ought to make sacrifies for matual benefit
  B) it lead to the arrest of the miners by the police
  C) it shows the bad conditions of the mines
  D) it ios the result of panic
  E) it keeps xuma out of trouble.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 578: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes. Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 579:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  
  In the play, social change is achieved through

  Options:
  A) collectivism
  B) sectionalism
  C) individualism
  D) communism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 580:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called

  Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monoloque
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  The correct answer is B .