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 1651: "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 1652:

  Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word
  Pad

  Options:
  A) paid
  B) mail
  C) mat
  D) made
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1653: 'Even children knew of Simi! Wives knelt and prayed that their men might sin a hundred times with a hundred women, but may their erring feet never lead them to Simi of the slow eyelids. For then men lost hope of salvation, their homes and children became ghost of a past illusion, learning from Simi to a new view of life, and love immersed in a cannibal's reality. Simi broke men, and friendship'.It is obvious from this passage that Simi is Options:
  A) famous for her love of children
  B) a goddess worshipped by children, women and men
  C) a woman other women like to befriend
  D) an alluring, irresistible man-snatcher
  E) disliked for teaching sex-education.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1654:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1655: ''Mother, didn''t you hear me? I''ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don''t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?I haven''t done anything wrong again, have i? Answer me, speak to me, mother!''The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) sadness
  B) anger
  C) anxiety
  D) nonchalance
  E) joy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1656:

  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.

  'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'

  In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  Options:
  A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  B) he cannot do good deeds
  C) action often conflicts with knowledge
  D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1657:

  Pick out the odd item

  Options:
  A) a Raisin in the Sun
  B) Twelfth Night
  C) Ozidi
  D) The Concubine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1658:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.The following epithets:

  'The courageous captain of compliments...

  The very butcher of a silk button...

  A gentleman of the very first house...'

  Refer to

  Options:
  A) Tybalt
  B) Romeo
  C) Mercutio
  D) Benvolio.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1659: Poetry deals with one of the following Options:
  A) emotion only
  B) death only
  C) ideas only
  D) emotion and ideas
  E) beauty only
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1660:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

  'But what wakeful of man,

  Made of the mud of this earth,

  Can stare at the touch of sleep

  The stable vehicle of dream

  Which indeed is the look of your eyes?'

  These lines from J.P. Clark's 'Olokun' suggests that Olokun eyes

  Options:
  A) hypnotize
  B) cause sleeplessness
  C) terrify
  D) prevent dreams
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  The correct answer is A .