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 981:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The witnesses to the tears in the novelare

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 982:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Like many other characters of her type, Li in the novel, is able to attain progress through her

  Options:
  A) prayers to God
  B) criticism of the system
  C) optimistic attitude
  D) dedication to duty
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 983: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom? Options:
  A) Domination of the kingdom and its trade
  B) Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
  C) Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
  D) Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 984:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the cold hands of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?

  Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'

  These two stanzas capture the

  Options:
  A) fear of death
  B) ugliness of death
  C) mystery of death
  D) knowledge of death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 985: The line 'Ask them why they idle there' in Kofi Awoonor's Song of Sorrow' is a reference to Options:
  A) ancestors
  B) loafers
  C) vagabonds
  D) urchins
  E) ancestors
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 986:

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) parody
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 987:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The dominant imagery in Kofi Awoonor's 'The Cathedral' is

  Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) auditory
  C) tactile
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 988:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  Who is Mr Cole?

  Options:
  A) a black tenant at the first apartment at England
  B) Adah's colleague at the Consulate
  C) Adah's nephew she's forced to live with after Pa's death
  D) Adah's elementary school teacher
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 989:

  ________is used to describe the 'god of inspiration' in literature

  Options:
  A) Muse
  B) Premiere
  C) Mood
  D) Deux Ex Machina
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 990: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as Options:
  A) comic relief
  B) rhetoric
  C) anti-climax
  D) climax
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  The correct answer is A .