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 601:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

  Options:
  A) rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  B) represent the image of African traditionalism
  C) condemn male chauvinism
  D) demonstrate the plight of widowhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 602:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 603: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of Options:
  A) counsellors, spiritual advisers and soldiers
  B) court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
  C) court officials, British official and people
  D) people soldiers and beggars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 604:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A quatrain is

  Options:
  A) the last line of a poem
  B) the fourth line of a sonnet
  C) a poem which ends with a question
  D) a stanza consisting of four lines
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 605: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 606:

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

  The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  Implies that

  Options:
  A) there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
  B) there is a possibility of moral regeneration
  C) the teacher is not involved in corruption
  D) any corrupt government will be overthrown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 607:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  The play is pre occupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from males domination
  D) Women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 608:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) abuse
  B) condemn
  C) praise
  D) elaborate
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 609: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 610:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .