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 161: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Launko's End of the War portrays the Options:
  A) silence of battlefield
  B) irony of life
  C) arrangement of war
  D) usefulness of praise singers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 162:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

  J.P Clark:Olokun

  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 164: 'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that Options:
  A) the sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
  B) Stanley was shut out of Western civilization
  C) Stanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
  D) Stanley was very well recieved
  E) Stanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 165:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....How can i look at Oyo and say i

  Hate long shiny cars? How can i

  Come to the children and despise

  International schools?

  And Koomson comes, and the

  Family sees Jesus Christ in him....The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 166:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...

  Lord of the Files by William Golding

  'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

  Options:
  A) gentle response of the animal being roasted
  B) rudeness of the animal to the hunter
  C) gentle process of roasting on the fire
  D) fropping of the fat of the meat in the fire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 167: The 'curse' the old master put on Brother Jero is that he would Options:
  A) drown in water
  B) be killed by armed robbers
  C) come to ruin by women
  D) loss his prophetic visions
  E) die in a road mishap.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 168:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

  England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

  The subject matter of the passage above is the

  Options:
  A) uncritical acceptance of European values
  B) woes of English marriage
  C) adventures in England
  D) intransigence of an African wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 169:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 170:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '

  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

  The landscape described in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) formidable
  B) friendly
  C) hostile
  D) overpowering
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  The correct answer is A .