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 1:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): 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 poet-persona in Serenade is

  Options:
  A) boastful
  B) arrogant
  C) persuasive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2:

  Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

  Options:
  A) Aroma
  B) Poetry
  C) Drama
  D) Prose
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3: The title of Achebe Things Fall Apart is taken from poem written by Options:
  A) T.S Eliot
  B) William Shakespeare
  C) William Wordsworth
  D) Wole Soyinka
  E) W.B Yeats.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 4: In 'Fulani Cattle', the poet expresses Options:
  A) his belief that cattles are meant to be slaughtered by men
  B) regret that there will soon not be enough cattle to go round
  C) the idea that cattle are created strong to enable them endure the long journey from the north to the south
  D) sympathy for the cattle that are driven from the north to the south of Nigeria to be slaughtered
  E) admiration for the sharp knife with which the cattle are slaughtered.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  "In the cold hand of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike

  Shrunk to a sub-soil grub

  His head was hallowed and his brain

  On scales-was this a trick to prove

  Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

  Options:
  A) juxtaposition
  B) rhetoric
  C) iambic meter
  D) allusions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A story which explains the origin of a natural phenomenon is a

  Options:
  A) fiction
  B) legend
  C) parable
  D) myth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7: What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his Options:
  A) smart apearance
  B) difference
  C) gift of microscope
  D) lovely tea parties
  E) inexhaustible knowledge.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 8: 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 9: Nani's sternness and frequent use of the cane Options:
  A) was responsible for his transfers
  B) exacted obedience from his wife
  C) fiiled his children with fear and pain
  D) gave him a very good reputation
  E) made his teacher rebel against him
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10:

  'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
  And got with our bags and our brushes to work
  Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) is working indoors
  B) is wearing warm clothes
  C) is doing his duty
  D) has just woken from sleep
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  The correct answer is C .