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 Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 72:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 73:

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

  The persona of the novel sees death as a welcome event provided one

  Options:
  A) has loved and cared for one's spouse
  B) has left behind children to be remembered by
  C) has fulfilled one's destiny on earth
  D) will haunt the living for the past offences
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 74: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.One of the dominant themes if Rubadin's An African Thunderstorm is the Options:
  A) relationship between man and woman
  B) activities of man during rainy seasons
  C) effect of rain on women and children
  D) problem of climate change
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 75:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

  Options:
  A) four months
  B) five months
  C) two months
  D) three months
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 76: What literary mode best described Soyinka's The Trial Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the Options:
  A) Tragedy
  B) Satire
  C) Tragi-comedy
  D) Epic
  E) Baroque.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 77:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 78: "Kwarshiorkor", "grave", "ravage", "wreck", "funeral", "piles" and fearful". These words from J.P. Clarks "The Casualties" connote Options:
  A) war
  B) burial
  C) casualty
  D) disaster
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 79: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Which of the following forms of poetry is an example of a monologue? Options:
  A) Lament
  B) Ode
  C) Sonnet
  D) Epic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 80: These question are based on J.C De Graft's Sons and Daughters.The final harassment of Maanan takes place in Options:
  A) Ofosu's office
  B) Lawyer B's chamber
  C) Ofosu's house
  D) Lawyer B's house
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  The correct answer is C .