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 1671:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  The dominant technique in the book is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) foreshadowing
  C) symbolism
  D) reminiscence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1672:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

  These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

  Options:
  A) appreciates the environment of his experience
  B) is insensitive to his experience
  C) is unable to believe his experience
  D) believes both his environment and experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1673: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1674: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Black theater is drama concerned with Options:
  A) mourners dressed in black
  B) actors of black origin
  C) the identity of black Americans
  D) Africans of West Indian origin
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1675:

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

  The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) insanity
  B) wickedness
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1676:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

  Options:
  A) orchard of Macbeth
  B) witches' enclave
  C) forest of Dunsinane
  D) death-place of King Duncan
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1677:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  '...let the greying day grow

  ....let the evening horns blow

  ....let the melting mountains go

  ....but let the sundown sow''

  To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

  The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

  Options:
  A) metaphorical
  B) symbolical
  C) alliterative
  D) rhythmical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1678: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1679:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

  The noveldraws a picture of______?

  Options:
  A) useless past
  B) a totalitarian future
  C) an unstable moment
  D) a peaceful atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1680: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.The tone of Umeh's Ambassadors of Poverty can be described as Options:
  A) panegyrical
  B) metaphorical
  C) sarcastic
  D) admonitory
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  The correct answer is C .