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:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Linda's words above express a feeling of

  Options:
  A) darkness and horror
  B) fear and sadness
  C) fear and anxiety
  D) suspicion and shock
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1022:

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

  Hardy employs the character of Henchard to propagate the notion of

  Options:
  A) confessing our weaknesses
  B) courageously combating adversity
  C) taking steadfast decisions
  D) accepting inevitable defeat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1023:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'

  Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

  The force of the speech above is sustained on.

  Options:
  A) delivery
  B) musicality
  C) repetition
  D) oratory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1024:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1025: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) disillusion with the whites
  B) satisfaction with the medal
  C) contribution to the colonialists
  D) admiration for the church
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1026:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1027: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.The subject matter of Adeoti's Naked Soles is Options:
  A) soul and mind
  B) hunger and strife
  C) suffering and despair
  D) hatred and bitterness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1028:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' is cast in the mould of

  Options:
  A) a dirge
  B) a gossip
  C) an epistle
  D) a ditty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1029: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1030:

  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 .