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JAMB Literature in English · Prose

Textual analysis: JAMB Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Textual analysis

Our summary: Reading each set novel for its themes, plot, setting in time and place, and the society it reflects.

  • Theme
  • Plot
  • Setting (Temporal/Spatial)
  • Socio-political context

Objectives

  • determine the thematic pre-occupation of the prescribed text;
  • indicate the plot of the novel;
  • identify the setting and period/timing of the novel.
  • relate the prescribed text to social reality.

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JAMB Literature in English questions on Textual analysis

  1. JAMB 2025This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class CItizen. Adah faces discrimination based on
  2. JAMB 2025This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. From the events in the novel, one can conclude that Joseph is
  3. JAMB 2025This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I will wait, if I can only…
  4. JAMB 2025This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn The temporal setting of the novel is in
  5. JAMB 2025This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen The narrative of the novel centres around
  6. JAMB 2024This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen. Adah's disappointment is in the overwhelming
  7. JAMB 2024This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn. The setting of the novel is
  8. JAMB 2024This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn. Wachuk in the novel is
  9. JAMB 2024This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff considered himself the second half of
  10. JAMB 2024This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights The setting of the novel is
  11. JAMB 2024This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights The novel can be described as a
  12. JAMB 2024This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen The main challenge Adah encounters in England is
  13. JAMB 2024This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen Adah is so obsessed with the sleek woman at the hospital because the woman
  14. JAMB 2023This question is based on UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN. Which of these characters is at the center of the impact of the xenophobic attack in the novel?
  15. JAMB 2023This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT. What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?
  16. JAMB 2023This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT. What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?
  17. JAMB 2023This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. Who is Mr Cole?
  18. JAMB 2023This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. The novel is set after which major war?
  19. JAMB 2023PROSE: AFRICAN: UNEXPECTED JOY AT DAWN What distinguishes Nii Tackie from every other Ghanaian?
  20. JAMB 2023This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT. Which of the following characters dies last?
  21. JAMB 2021This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears. The novel is largely set in
  22. JAMB 2021This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. Old Major ends his speech to the animals with song in order to
  23. JAMB 2021This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. The message of the novel is that
  24. JAMB 2021This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm. After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of
  25. JAMB 2021This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears. In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed…
  26. JAMB 2019The specie of conflict exemplified in the Native Son is that of …
  27. JAMB 2018The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. The novel can be described as … ?
  28. JAMB 2018How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees…
  29. JAMB 2018The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winston’s dreams of … ?
  30. JAMB 2018The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS Yaremi's only son is … ?
  31. JAMB 2018The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR The novel draws a picture of … ?
  32. JAMB 2018The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Room 101 symbolises a place of … ???
  33. JAMB 2018The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting … ?
  34. JAMB 2018The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are … ???
  35. JAMB 2018The question is based on Richard Wright’s Native Son Bigger kills Mary due to … ?
  36. JAMB 2017This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days. The cap-picking ceremony is to
  37. JAMB 2017This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days Yaremi's main job is
  38. JAMB 2017This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless The dominant tone of the novel is one of
  39. JAMB 2016This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son. The family that donates to charity is
  40. JAMB 2016This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless. After impregnating Maa Tsuru, Kwei's family treats him like a
  41. JAMB 2016This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days. In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with
  42. JAMB 2016This 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
  43. JAMB 2015This question is based on George Orwell's 1984. 'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love…
  44. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems
  45. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. In the novel, it is necessary that Ona has to leave her father's house because
  46. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that
  47. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for
  48. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is
  49. JAMB 2015This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood. The relationships of Nnaife family are

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