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: These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.Vandermayer's attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church's Options:
  A) despondency
  B) infuriation
  C) hypocrisy
  D) suspicion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 123:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 124: Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
  The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) Sadness
  B) anxiety
  C) anger
  D) nonchalance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 125:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The theme of the poem is__________

  Options:
  A) drought and heat
  B) abomination and retribution
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and disease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 126: Point out the odd item in this list Options:
  A) Romeo and Juliet
  B) Ozidi
  C) Tom Sawyer
  D) A Raisin in the Sun
  E) Kongi's Harvest
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 127: This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of Options:
  A) fable
  B) euphemism
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 128: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
  The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago'.In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker Options:
  A) abhors polygamy
  B) has become impotent
  C) is a crafty seducer
  D) is disgusted with life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 129: 'The pen is mightier than the sword' is an example of Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) antonomasia
  C) comparison
  D) synecdoche
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 130: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) anecdote
  B) saturation
  C) hyperbole
  D) Satire
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  The correct answer is D .