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 1021:

  Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

  Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

  Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

  To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

  Options:
  A) surprise
  B) lament
  C) uncertainty
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1022:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1023: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1024:

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

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1025:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.The mood of Peter's The Panic of Growing Older can be described as

  Options:
  A) sober
  B) boastful
  C) defiant
  D) languid
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1026:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The theme of the novel is

  Options:
  A) hatred
  B) corruption
  C) poverty
  D) morality
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1027:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  '''I, Michael Henchard, on this morning;..., do take an oath before God here in this Solemn place...

  And this I swear upon the book before me;... !''

  The oath above is taken when

  Options:
  A) Henchard gets married to Susan
  B) Henchard collects five guineas as the prize for Susan
  C) Henchard swears to stop taking strong liquros
  D) Newson returns Susan to Henchard
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1028:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play is based on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mllow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1029: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1030: Which group of characters appears in Macbeth? Options:
  A) Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
  B) Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
  C) Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
  D) Duncan, frederick, Banquo
  E) Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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  The correct answer is C .