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 1521:

  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.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  You solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;...

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The lines above from William Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' constitute

  Options:
  A) a soliloguy
  B) an aside
  C) an apostrophe
  D) an interior monologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1522:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The images depicted are those of

  Options:
  A) poverty and opulence
  B) opulence and brutality
  C) suffering and depression
  D) suffering and brutality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1523: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.How did Winston start his rebellion against the state? Options:
  A) By keeping a private diary
  B) when he started a secret affair
  C) when he spied on the party
  D) by engaging ij anti-party activities
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1524:

  The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Pun
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1525: The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth Options:
  A) death and burial
  B) man's mortality
  C) the changes in seasons
  D) the propitiation of ancestors
  E) the falling od dew-drops.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1526:

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

  '... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'

  In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's

  For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was

  Options:
  A) foressen
  B) predetermined
  C) anticipated
  D) unexpected
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1527: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,the novel demonstrates the Options:
  A) struggle of man against defeat
  B) attempt to catch fish
  C) desire to understand life
  D) influence of the sea on man
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1528:

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

  Ramatoulaye's attitude to her co-wife is that of

  Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) anger
  C) contempt
  D) pity
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1529:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  The leaves are withered. Roses fold and shrink

  Dog, the panting athlete shows his tongue A dwarled shadow flees. Hides under legs. Nuts

  Wrinkle and crack

  'Poems in Four Parts' by W.Kamera

  One dominant image presented in the poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) spent life
  B) summer
  C) death
  D) tiredness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1530: In the early days of the Durrell's sojourn on the island of Corfu, Gerry's most constant companion was Options:
  A) Christaki
  B) Roger
  C) Spiro
  D) Yani
  E) Larry
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  The correct answer is C .