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 1551:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1552: A Sonnet is a poem of Options:
  A) seven lines
  B) three lines
  C) four lines
  D) fourteen lines
  E) twelve lines.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1553: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1554:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

  Options:
  A) Islamic and modern traditions
  B) pre-Islamic and Islamic traditions
  C) pre-Islamic traditions
  D) pre-Islamic and modern traditions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1555: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.The family that donates to charity is Options:
  A) the Thomas
  B) Buckleys
  C) the Daltons
  D) the Earlones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1556:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

  Options:
  A) reflect reality
  B) be good actors
  C) justify their actions
  D) be creative on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1557: 'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which Options:
  A) defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
  B) explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
  C) refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
  D) emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
  E) highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1558: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1559:

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Melancholic
  B) Ironic
  C) Harsh
  D) Derisive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1560:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  Adah's sojourn in London reveals that

  Options:
  A) marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
  B) her marriege improves
  C) Francis is a hardworking man
  D) the plight of the black woman does not change
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  The correct answer is D .