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 71:

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

  'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'

  The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  C) Mr. Good Country's son
  D) Jesus Christ
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 72: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 73: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Genres of literature aptly describes Options:
  A) tradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
  B) ode, elegy, sonnet
  C) short story, novel, autobiography
  D) poetry, prose , drama
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 74:

  A fable is a story in which________?

  Options:
  A) allegations are made about characters
  B) animal is or things are used as characters
  C) there is an important setting
  D) the story is told in poetic form
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 75:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  The island in the novel is a

  Options:
  A) symbol of peace
  B) hide out for children during the war
  C) symbol of innocence
  D) world of abundance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 76:

  The theme that runs through Hallowell's Dining Table is that of________

  Options:
  A) Conflict
  B) Brutality
  C) Poverty
  D) Loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 77:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'

  Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?

  Options:
  A) He says Donald must not befriend Elizabeth - Jane
  B) He asks Abel Whittle to go to Blackmoor vale half naked
  C) He dismisses Jopp, his former manager
  D) He decides not to marry Lucetta on Susan's return.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 78:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 79:

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

  In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 80: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four Options:
  A) lines
  B) stanzas
  C) refrains
  D) poems
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  The correct answer is A .