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 731:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'Idoto' in Okigbo's 'The Passage' is the name of

  Options:
  A) the poet's mother
  B) the poet's village
  C) a village shrine
  D) a village stream
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 732: In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was Options:
  A) a sense of disillusionment
  B) a feeling of utter shame
  C) anger of disgust
  D) one of excitement.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 733:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 734:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

  The play portrays the judiciary as

  Options:
  A) unserious and lenient
  B) consistent and just
  C) corrupt and weak
  D) patronising and self-righteous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 735:

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

  The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

  Options:
  A) as an aside
  B) by a chorus off-stage
  C) on-stage and off-stage
  D) off-stage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 736: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 737:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 738:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 739: 'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) short sentences
  D) the past tense
  E) puntuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 740:

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

  In the play, the Oba's poetic language reveals his

  Options:
  A) humility
  B) heroism
  C) nobility
  D) haughtiness
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  The correct answer is D .