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: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates human action is Options:
  A) drama
  B) comedy
  C) prose
  D) poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 162:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I am alone

  And the murmur of my lips

  Carry song and tears homewards

  From a plain away from home

  Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

  Options:
  A) elation
  B) anger
  C) nostaglgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A primary ballad is associated with

  Options:
  A) educated people
  B) urban folk
  C) the nomads
  D) rural folk
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 164:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 165:

  This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.

  The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

  Options:
  A) Mr. Carrington
  B) O'Brien
  C) Eurasia
  D) Coworker Julius
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 166: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 167: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of Options:
  A) Peace
  B) Plenty
  C) Love
  D) Truth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 168:

  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 169:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 170:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .