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 1721:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others... When you induce opponent to come to you,then their force is always empty,like attacking emptiness with fulness is throwing stones on eggs.'

  Zhang Yu: The Art of War

  The theme of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) folly of soldiers
  B) spurring people to action
  C) war
  D) inspiration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1722:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'

  Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being

  Options:
  A) paradoxical
  B) anttithetical
  C) illogical
  D) tautological
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1723:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1724:

  '...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'

  The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

  Options:
  A) his father
  B) his grandfather
  C) Ikemefuna
  D) his grandmother
  E) Ezinma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1725: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to Options:
  A) describe a place
  B) preach a sermon
  C) tell a story
  D) summarize a story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1726: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Milton's On His Blindness, the poet's attitude towards his blindness is one of Options:
  A) anger
  B) sorrow
  C) fortitude
  D) apathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1727:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1728: 'Nkosi Sikekela' in Brutus' 'After Exile', refers to a Options:
  A) general in the Zulu army
  B) Zulu song used as national anthem by Africans south of Zanbezi
  C) soldier in the Zulu army
  D) Zulu poem
  E) Zulu poet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1729:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) confidentiality
  C) authenticity
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1730:

  The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.

  In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetitious statements
  B) symbolic reference
  C) biblical allusion
  D) delibrate distortion
  E) hyperbolic comment.
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  The correct answer is C .