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 151:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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.): West African Verse.

  'I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me'.

  From Robert Frosts ' Wild Grapes' is

  Options:
  A) the adventures of some wild children in the forest
  B) the dramatic suspension of a child on a tree
  C) the successful climbing of an adventurous boy
  D) reminiscence of man's transcendentalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 152:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there

  He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.

  This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) cannot spell correctly
  B) cannot speak English correctly
  C) is a stranger
  D) is very angry
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 153:

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

  One of the enriching features of the play is the

  Options:
  A) matchmaking attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) use of rural and urban settings
  D) lopsided resolution of conflicts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154:

  'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
  Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
  Did I go to college?
  Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

  The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) parallelism
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 155: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is Options:
  A) exploitation and cruelty
  B) retributive justice
  C) class segregation
  D) totalitarian dictatorship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 156: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An autobiography becomes a literary work when Options:
  A) it is a faithful account of the author's
  B) it underlines the salient events in the author's life
  C) it relates the author's life to the major events of the day
  D) its value resides principally in its style
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.Room 101 symbolizes a place oF Options:
  A) rest
  B) humiliation
  C) torture
  D) fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  The bustle in a house

  The morning after death

  Is solemnest of industries

  Enacted upon earth-

  The sweeping up the heart

  And putting love away

  We shall not want to use again

  Until eternity.

  The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

  Options:
  A) misplaced anxiety
  B) great relief
  C) solemn resignation
  D) morbid fear.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 159: The poem 'When a Strainer Takes in Water' is Options:
  A) a dirge
  B) an incantation
  C) an ode
  D) a lullaby
  E) a ballad.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 160: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .