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 91:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'

  Patricia Melo:The Killer

  The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

  Options:
  A) brace himself up for the action
  B) report the pig before killing it
  C) contemplate the killing of the pig
  D) justify the action of killing the pig
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 92: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.The tone of Cope's Sonnet VII is generally Options:
  A) persuasive
  B) optimistic
  C) mournful
  D) humorous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 93:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???

  Options:
  A) White
  B) Red
  C) Black
  D) Green
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 94:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the arena

  They began to sing my song,

  We could hear it faintly

  Passing through the air'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  What is the figure of speech used in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Irony
  C) Personification
  D) Simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 95: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) invocation
  C) personification
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 96:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 97:

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

  The immediate cause of the war between Umuaro and Okperi was the

  Options:
  A) land dispute
  B) murder of Akukalia
  C) intervention of Captain Winterbottom
  D) siting of the colonial adminstrative headquarters at Okperi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 98:

  One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) happy ending
  C) tragic hero
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 99:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; 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-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Arthur Nortje's Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

  Options:
  A) apartheid
  B) revolution
  C) celebration
  D) violence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 100: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on Options:
  A) childbirth
  B) wealth
  C) male child
  D) female child
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  The correct answer is A .