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 1221: This question is based on Literary Appreciation “ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young GirlThe writer of the passage above is ________? Options:
  A) assertive
  B) retrogressive
  C) optimistic
  D) antagnistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1222: This question is based on selection poem from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using Options:
  A) monologue
  B) apostrophe
  C) dialogue
  D) admonition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1223:

  'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

  Hold back hold back-is the time- oh

  Endless time-slung in oblivion,

  Make minced meat of your prey.'

  Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

  The mood captured in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) happiness
  C) indifference
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1224: A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is Options:
  A) an oxymoron
  B) a parable
  C) an irony
  D) an inversion
  E) a paradox.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1225:

  'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'

  The character described in the passage is the father of

  Options:
  A) Niam
  B) Endongolo
  C) Zambo
  D) Medza
  E) Duckfoot Johnny
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1226:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

  Options:
  A) as an aside
  B) by a chorus off-stage
  C) on-stage and off-stage
  D) off-stage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1227:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

  Options:
  A) serious
  B) comic
  C) satiric
  D) tragic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1228: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1229:

  What structure is poetry written in?

  Options:
  A) sentences and paragraphs
  B) sentences and stanzas
  C) lines and paragraphs
  D) lines and stanzas
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1230:

  'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.

  In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to

  Options:
  A) a ployman and the herd
  B) the rich people of the village
  C) the congregation of the church
  D) the politicians
  E) all those buried in the graveyard
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  The correct answer is E .