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 131:

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

  In his reaction to his friend's death, the mood of the poet, in 'For CHristopher Okigbo' is that of

  Options:
  A) shock
  B) disbelief
  C) acceptance
  D) grief
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 132:

  'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.

  In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

  Options:
  A) Brazilian legend
  B) Greek mythology
  C) French cosmology
  D) American history
  E) African folklore.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 133:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) apostrophe
  C) elegy
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 134: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the Options:
  A) ministry of the truth
  B) proles
  C) party
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 135:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 136:

  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 137: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 138:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 139: A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept must be a Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortune
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 140: The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) climax
  C) peripety
  D) euphemism.
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  The correct answer is D .