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 121:

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

  Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

  Options:
  A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
  B) his affection for his uncle
  C) the strength of communal living in Africa
  D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 122:

  'And now the bells are chiming

  A year is born

  'And my heart bell is ringing

  In a dawn'

  The writer of these words is in a state of

  Options:
  A) exuberance
  B) dejection
  C) despair
  D) joyful hope
  E) dismal sorrow.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 123:

  These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

  The novel draws a picture of

  Options:
  A) a useless past
  B) an unstable moment
  C) a peaceful atmosphere
  D) a totalitarian future
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 124:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  To stop himself from cutting off the sound in anger the man turned and just watched the fan, only just then another feeble, useless movement would happen and blades would be drawn through another arc. Only a long hour later did the noise finally stop - 4:30p.m

  A.K Amah. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  In this passage, the writer

  Options:
  A) creates a mood of suspense
  B) enhances an oppressive atmosphere
  C) describes the man's anger
  D) captures the man's habitual impatience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 125:

  'I am informed the day recycles itself today

  When I slept in the Lord in February

  I blame no one for an untimely death

  I bless Good for a noble departure-His words

  The lord taketh the righteous away before evil days

  The persona in the poem appears happy to have died

  Options:
  A) a noble death
  B) during the day
  C) at an old age
  D) an untimely death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 126: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 127:

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

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 128: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The speaker is referring to Options:
  A) Fosuwa
  B) Awere
  C) Maanan
  D) Hannah
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The author's thematic concern is

  Options:
  A) the boy's assistance to the man
  B) life in a fishing community
  C) the achievements of the old man
  D) the ability to rise above defeat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 130: The hero of The Trials of Brother Jero is Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the Old Prophet
  C) the politician
  D) Brother Chume
  E) Brother Jero
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  The correct answer is E .