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 1171:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1172:

  The hunter dies
  and leaves his poverty to his gun
  The blacksmith dies
  and leaves his poverty to his anvil...
  The extract above is an example of

  Options:
  A) epic
  B) eulogy
  C) ballad
  D) elegy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1173:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

  Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

  In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) resignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1174:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The object of the extract is____?

  Options:
  A) childishness
  B) the unchanging cycle of nature
  C) the adverse effect of old age
  D) human being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1175:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Li's initial aspiration in the novel is to

  Options:
  A) escape from village life to the city
  B) marry a handsome man
  C) join her husband in the city
  D) remain in the peaceful village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1176: As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of Options:
  A) autobiography
  B) sermon
  C) travelogue
  D) epistle
  E) biography.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1177:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1178: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through Options:
  A) the complaints of Biddy
  B) the pretensions of Pumblechook
  C) his rejection by Estella
  D) the death of his sister
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1179: Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife? Options:
  A) xuma
  B) Leah
  C) Ma plank
  D) Dladia
  E) Joseph.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1180: Macbeth is confident that he will not be defeated in battle because Options:
  A) all his enemies has gone into exile
  B) he is a better fighter than Macduff
  C) he had already killed Banquo
  D) Lady Macbeth gives him courage
  E) the witches gave him an assurance
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  The correct answer is E .