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 1451:

  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.

  The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1452:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  What special function does Ramatoulaye's diary perform?

  Options:
  A) It is a record of her personal experiences
  B) It brings succour to her in distress
  C) It helps her understand current events
  D) It aids her memory of pst events
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1453: Of the issues raised by Wole Soyinka in The Trials Of Brother Jero, the most central deals with the Options:
  A) fraustration of an incompatible marriage
  B) rivarly of religious sects
  C) negative qualities of women
  D) evil of religious demagogy
  E) disadvantages of over-ambitious, naive personality.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1454:

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

  'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is

  Options:
  A) going to hunt lions
  B) still determined and hopefu
  C) afraid of future struggle
  D) about to enter new jungles
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1455:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1456: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1457:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

  Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

  Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) disgust
  B) indignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1458:

  '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 1459:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on

  Options:
  A) showing casual connection of incidents
  B) the vivid presentation of incidents
  C) the accurate presentation of incidents
  D) narrating the truth of incidents
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1460:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  X: I am told he's a man of an excellent understanding

  Y: Is he?

  X: Very generous.

  Y: I believe I shall like him.

  X: Young and brave.

  Y: I'm sure I shall like him.

  X: And very handsome.

  Y:....,I'll have him.

  Who are the speakers X and Y and about whom are they speaking ?

  Options:
  A) Neville and Kate about Hastings
  B) Kate and her mother about Marlow
  C) Miss Hardcastle and Mr. Hardcastle about Tony
  D) Mr. Hardcastle and Kate about Marlow
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  The correct answer is D .