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 101:

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

  '...no difference at all between the '' whitemen'' and their apes the layers and the merchants and now apes of the apes our Party men ...'

  The statement above refers to Koomson's

  Options:
  A) commitment to the plight of the poor man
  B) reaction to the politics of betrayal
  C) change of attitude to the plight of the poor man
  D) disgust with the ''whitemen'' who are apes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'O'let us have him, for his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion and buy men's voices to commend our deeds it shall be said his judgement rules our hands. Our youths and wildness shall not whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity.

  William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

  In the excerpt above, his silver hairs refers to

  Options:
  A) a judicial wig
  B) make-up
  C) old age
  D) wealth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 103: An ode is best described as a Options:
  A) story told in poetic from
  B) poetic composition of fourteen lines
  C) narration about nature and natural objects
  D) lyrical poem addressed to some persons things
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 104:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 105:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a

  Options:
  A) hexameter
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

  'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) Ogeyi
  B) Alice
  C) Ayo
  D) Mrs Obi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 107:

  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.Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?

  Options:
  A) a celebration of life
  B) an appreciation of nature
  C) a demystication of death
  D) a celebration of the final passage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 108:

  'I am become a name;

  For always roaming with a hungry heart

  Much have i seen and known; cities of men

  And manners, climates, council, governments'

  These line fairly represent the attitude of Ulysses' life. This attitude may be described as

  Options:
  A) complaining continually about life
  B) unwillingness to agree and work with others.
  C) ceaseless labour and search for challenges
  D) dislike of one's country or home
  E) roaming and idling.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 109:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunel is presented as a

  Options:
  A) fine specimen of an education young man
  B) truly progressive and enlightened youth
  C) strong defender of the people's tradition
  D) caricature of a modern educated man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 110: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about Options:
  A) Aaron's choice of course
  B) Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
  C) George qnd Kofi
  D) Hannah and George
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  The correct answer is A .