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 1501:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; 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 and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'My bottom raven black-one moment madam!- sensing

  Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap

  The extract above from Wole Soyinka's

  Telephone Conversation' shows the friction between

  Options:
  A) madam and receiver
  B) tenant and telephone
  C) landlady and tenant
  D) receiver and thunderclap
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1502: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Both comedy and tragedy have Options:
  A) climax
  B) tragic hero
  C) stanza
  D) happy ending
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1503:

  "Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

  Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

  Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

  Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

  People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

  Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

  Options:
  A) more radiant
  B) more colourful
  C) less awkward
  D) less scheming
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1504:

  Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  Options:
  A) Prosaic
  B) Lyrical
  C) Analogical
  D) Metaphorical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1505: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1506:

  'Dead leaves blew into the room.

  And alighted upon my bed.

  Ans a tree declared to the gloom

  Its sorrow that they were shed'

  The mood registered in these lines is

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) depression
  C) gaiety
  D) happiness
  E) persimism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1507: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnaife and Nnu Ego Second Child but the first to live is Options:
  A) Adim
  B) Ngozi
  C) Oshia
  D) Adaku
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1508:

  'This thing you are doing is too heavy

  For you, he said.'I went to school only a little

  But i have killed many more years in this

  World than you have.' G. Okara: The VoiceIt can be inferred from the the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is more experienced
  B) speaker is more experienced
  C) listener is wise
  D) speaker is a porter
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1509: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.The cap-picking ceremony is to Options:
  A) break the strong will of Yaremi
  B) make Yaremi remarry
  C) establish that she is wicked
  D) prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1510:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' The old man himself does not believe in it

  But when people see you doing something to get ahead, they become jealous and shout the slogans against you .''

  What is being referred to in these lines?

  Options:
  A) Christianity
  B) Pan Africanism
  C) Socialism
  D) Capitalism
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  The correct answer is C .