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:

  ''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

  This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

  Options:
  A) Gbossa
  B) Benue
  C) Nassarawa
  D) Jabu
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 602: Miss Havisham grooms Estella the way she does so as to make Estella Options:
  A) a model lady
  B) a good wife to Pip
  C) a dependable character
  D) unattractive to men
  E) a means of torturing menfolk.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 603:

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

  The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

  Options:
  A) the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  B) the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  C) all those who join the new religion would become lepers
  D) religion invites diseases
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 604:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 605:

  "Peter's pretty partner paid the bills" is an example of___________?

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Rhyme
  C) Satire
  D) Digression
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 606:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 607:

  One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) happy ending
  C) tragic hero
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 608:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

  Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

  Options:
  A) The chiefs
  B) Ologbosere
  C) The royal wives
  D) The soldiers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 609: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as Options:
  A) plot
  B) time
  C) setting
  D) episode
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 610: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Marvell, in To His Coy Mistress uses the imagery of death to Options:
  A) appreciates God's power
  B) condemn the lady
  C) scare the lady
  D) underscore life's transcience
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  The correct answer is C .