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 1201:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a copyright
  B) an authority to write
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitional provision
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1202: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is Options:
  A) eulogy
  B) anthology
  C) lampoon
  D) premiere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1203:

  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.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1204:

  You

  Your head is like a drum that is beaten

  For spirits

  Your ears are like the fans used for

  Blowing fire.The lines above are a good example of

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) lampoon
  C) caricature
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1205:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A 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. (ed.):West African Verse

  In Keats'On the Grassihopper and Cricket 'poetry of earth' refers to

  Options:
  A) poetry written about earth
  B) songs by grasshopper and cricket
  C) poetry written by mother earth
  D) songs by birds, grasshoppers and crickets
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1206:

  At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.

  The setting is best described as

  Options:
  A) bracing
  B) dismal
  C) exhilarating
  D) delightful
  E) pleasant.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1207:

  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.

  What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

  Options:
  A) Piety
  B) Ageing
  C) Indifference
  D) Inequality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1208: Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian? Options:
  A) The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
  B) Weep Not Child
  C) Mine Boy
  D) A Man Of The People
  E) Mission to Kala.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1209:

  I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly. A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) Is determined to suffer
  B) Has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) Will cure his sour mood
  D) Will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1210:

  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.

  In 'Hurrah for Thunder', Christopher Okigbo celebrates

  Options:
  A) thunder
  B) destruction
  C) change
  D) hunters
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  The correct answer is D .