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 1401: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1402:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"
  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) hendiadys
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) anadiplosis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1403:

  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.

  The setting of T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) coldness
  B) confusion
  C) faiety
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1404: In David Diop's 'The Vultures', the statement 'And the monotonous rhythm of the paternoster Drowned the howing on the plantations,' suggests that Options:
  A) music was more important than work
  B) boredom received more attention than suffering
  C) music was more pleasant than cries
  D) religion received more attention than the suffering slaves.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1405: In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could Options:
  A) become pagans
  B) appreciate the beauty of Nature more
  C) go to see Proteus and Triton
  D) become part of Nation
  E) give their 'hearts aways
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1406: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression Options:
  A) Sestet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1407:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'SINCE I am coming to that Holy roome,

  Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore

  I shall be made thy Musique; As I come

  I tune the Instrument here at the dore,

  And what I must doe then, thinke here before.'

  John Donne, 'hymn to God my God'

  In the stanza above, the poet recognizes that

  Options:
  A) God is his creator
  B) he is a choir master
  C) there is music in heaven
  D) he is near his death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1408: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1409: In a work of Literature, the hero is one Options:
  A) whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
  B) who is antagonistic to every one else
  C) whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
  D) who dies in the course of the story
  E) who performs brave and heroic deeds.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1410:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  '...He risked his life that you may boast

  A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-

  You sell him to the rhyming rabble

  Gloating in your disloyalty...

  In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

  Options:
  A) clowns who wait on the Bale
  B) children in Lakunle's school
  C) professional singers
  D) the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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  The correct answer is D .