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 1611: "Since I came into this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, to the white men, the medal that is given symbolizes Options:
  A) peace
  B) friendship
  C) harmonious relationship
  D) love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1612:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1613:

  I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly. A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) Is determined to suffer
  B) Has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) Will cure his sour mood
  D) Will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1614: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options. The stressed syllables are written in capital lettersJudiciary Options:
  A) judiciaRY
  B) JUdiciary
  C) judiCIAry
  D) juDIciary
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1615: In The Narrow Path Nani is transferred very frequently because he is Options:
  A) a trained teacher
  B) an untrained teacher
  C) a lazy worker
  D) a devoted and hardworking teacher
  E) a poor man's son
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1616:

  In 'In Memoriam' Senghor writes 'That from the dangerous safety of the tower, i may go down into the street...'

  'Dangerous safety' used in this poem is an example of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) personification
  E) apostophe.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1617:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that

  Options:
  A) the world came about by a series of chance happenings
  B) the world was created in three days
  C) a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
  D) death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1618: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1619: According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is Options:
  A) poor
  B) religious
  C) hopeful
  D) frustrated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1620: Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following Options:
  A) opression through labour
  B) the dignity of labour
  C) happy childhood
  D) conflict of the culture
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is D .