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:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.A cursing rogue with a merry farce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crurch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) bbaa
  D) abba
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1722:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Point of denouement in a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) point at which the major character is shown in his true colours
  B) point of disagreement in a narrative
  C) point of the resolution of the puzzling issues
  D) cathartic point in a tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1723: 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.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the Options:
  A) people's struggle for survival
  B) intolerance of the new generation
  C) celebration of African tradition
  D) criticism of modern tradition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1724:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A 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. (ed.): West African Verse.

  And my children left their peaceful nakedness

  For the uniform of iron and blood'

  In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of

  Options:
  A) innocence by violence
  B) nature by science
  C) village life by barrack life
  D) the natureal by the artificial
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1725: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is Options:
  A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
  B) justly rewarded in the end.
  C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
  D) given national honours in the end
  E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1726:

  In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

  Options:
  A) fear of natural disasters
  B) uncertainties of life
  C) futility of war
  D) essence of mankind and nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1727:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

  Options:
  A) his recent advances towards her
  B) the betrayal of her father's trust
  C) the betrayal of his wife's trust
  D) his condemnation of her choice of career
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1728:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.Tennyon's Crossing the Bar is ________?

  Options:
  A) a celebration of life
  B) an appreciation of nature
  C) a demystication of death
  D) a celebration of the final passage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1729: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption"Trust me. My duty is to convince her to play ball with him and then the usual commission keeps rolling in, shee you get?..."The speaker in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) Aloho
  B) Ogeyi
  C) Odili
  D) Ochuole
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1730:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; paintfull comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the fatcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi-comic dialogue.... mute echoes of pains.'

  The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause pattern called

  Options:
  A) enjambment
  B) caesura
  C) apostrophe
  D) scansion
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  The correct answer is B .