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 1251:

  'And for Mark Antony, think not of him;

  For he can do no more of caesar's arm

  When caesar's head is off'.

  This means that Mark Antony

  Options:
  A) will be assassinated with Caesar
  B) will become harmless once Caesar is dead
  C) is as powerless as Caesar's arm to control Caesar
  D) is as dangerous as Caesar's arm
  E) cannot do more harm as Caesar is capable of.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1252:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.In Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm,

  The thunderstorm begins with

  Options:
  A) rain from the west
  B) rain from the east
  C) clouds from the west
  D) clouds from the east
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1253: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who Options:
  A) is undeveloped
  B) undergoes changes
  C) dies abruptly
  D) achieves greatness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1254:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'It was not yet closing time but yet most staff were trooping out of their offices. The lift was working now and he squeezed himself into it,breathing with difficulty the body odour emitted by one the passengers. He sighed with relief when they got to the ground floor and trumbled out of the lift.'

  Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Forest of Flowers.

  In the excerpt above,the subject's experience in the lift is

  Options:
  A) timely
  B) unpleasant
  C) amusing
  D) comfortable
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1255:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1256:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1257:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The execution of some of the animals on the orders of Napoleon is to

  Options:
  A) prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
  B) make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
  C) achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
  D) pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1258:

  'When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the "obi" He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur'

  This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

  Options:
  A) weary lazy people
  B) very docile people
  C) peace-loving people
  D) military weak people
  E) inferior beings compare to white people.h
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1259: The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as Options:
  A) calm
  B) agitated
  C) cheerful
  D) aggressive
  E) uneasy.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1260:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!

  Life and desire and dreams and death

  Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

  The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) praise
  C) symbolism
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .