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 671: Chaucer presents The Franklin as Options:
  A) a great noble man
  B) a devout christain
  C) an apicurian in taste
  D) a jovial character
  E) an ambitious man
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 672:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The character of Marshal in the play shows that

  Options:
  A) human beings are selfless
  B) human beings are the same
  C) men love women
  D) human beings love power
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 673:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The events in the novel are set in

  Options:
  A) a possible soccial climate
  B) the distant past
  C) a real human society
  D) an imagined world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 674: The dominant attitude in T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the magi's is Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) total satisfaction
  C) ambivalence
  D) disgust
  E) pessimism.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 675:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  Nkem leaves Odilis house because

  Options:
  A) she is not afaithful wife
  B) she wants to keep her marriage
  C) of pressure from outsiders
  D) she is barren
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 676: A sonnet is a poem of Options:
  A) fourteen lines
  B) ten lines
  C) seven stanzas
  D) six stanzas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 677:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'

  In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's

  For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was

  Options:
  A) foressen
  B) predetermined
  C) anticipated
  D) unexpected
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 678:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.

  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'

  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) rejection
  B) anger
  C) protest
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 679:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) rituals
  C) proverbs
  D) songs and dances
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 680: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Cope's Sonnet VII, poets are presented as Options:
  A) recluses
  B) travellers
  C) sociologists
  D) researchers
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  The correct answer is D .