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 1491:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

  "Those who have full breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me, and the old girls returned_______

  Options:
  A) front of the veranda of Okoro's house
  B) the-kitchen, upstairs
  C) Okoro’s front yard, down stage
  D) the direction of the kitchen, off stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1492:

  Pick out the odd item

  Options:
  A) a Raisin in the Sun
  B) Twelfth Night
  C) Ozidi
  D) The Concubine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1493:

  This question is based on selected poems 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 and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) joy
  C) empathy
  D) envy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1494:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1495:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1496: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, one of the changes introduced into St Agnes' Church by Father Benedict is that Options:
  A) everyone must take holy communion
  B) there must be fasting every month
  C) the Credo must be recited in igbo
  D) the Kyrie must be rendered only in Latin
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1497:

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

  The novel is set in the

  Options:
  A) white peaks of the Canary Islands
  B) fishing coast of Havana
  C) fishing coast of Cienfuegos
  D) fishing village of Casablanca
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1498:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1499:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

  Options:
  A) non-concern for space
  B) willingness to take an apartment anywhere
  C) critical need for accommodation
  D) awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1500:

  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 .