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 1381:

  Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

  Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?

  Options:
  A) Mrs Bonu
  B) Hannah
  C) Fosuwa
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1382:

  'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.

  The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is

  Options:
  A) that of the writer of the passage
  B) that of the lady in the passage
  C) that of the lady's parent
  D) that of everybody everywhere
  E) that of unnamed person.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1383: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1384:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  J.P Clak's 'Streamside Exchange, depicts an interplay of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and passion
  B) anxiety and ignorance
  C) excitement and passion
  D) ignorance and wisdom
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1385: In Kongi's Harvest, there is a struggle for power between Kongi and Options:
  A) Daudo
  B) Oba Danlola
  C) Segi's father
  D) the Aweri fraternity
  E) the people
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1386: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that Options:
  A) there is very little hope for genuine change
  B) all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
  C) the military is the hope for salvation
  D) the beautiful ones will soon be born
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1387:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through

  '........They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests.......'

  _ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synecdoche
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1388: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAt the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________? Options:
  A) metaphor and paradox
  B) simile and metaphor
  C) simile and personification
  D) paradox and simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1389: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  'Pregnant clouds
  Ride Safely on its back'
  pregnant clouds in Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm implies
  Options:
  A) uncertainty
  B) calmness
  C) disbelief
  D) fertility
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1390:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .