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 1731: 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.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as Options:
  A) traditional
  B) satiritical
  C) didactic
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1732:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1733: Mother, didn't you hear me? I've brought the goat, hen and yams. Don't you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that? I haven't done anything wrong, again, have I? Answer me, speak to me, mother'
  The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) Sadness
  B) anxiety
  C) anger
  D) nonchalance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1734:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  OKORO: I'll kill her today.

  IDAMA: No, you won't. There, run, Koko, oh,

  I say run![He pushes her gently but

  firmly towards her room]

  The event above happens in

  Options:
  A) lyara when Okoro discovrs Koko's infidelity
  B) Erhuwaren whn Koko suspects and accuses her husband
  C) Erhuwaren when Okoro suspects Koko of infidelity
  D) Erhuwaren before Koko's return from lyara
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1735: This question is based on selection poem 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
  The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using Options:
  A) monologue
  B) apostrophe
  C) dialogue
  D) admonition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1736:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1737:

  The gurgling drums

  Echo the stars

  The forest howls

  And between the tress

  The dark sun appears.

  The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) personification.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1738:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term assonance refers of

  Options:
  A) repetition of alphabets in lines of a poem
  B) agreement of vowel sounds in a line
  C) repetition of vowels in a line
  D) agreement of consonants in a line
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1739: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1740: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.Room 101 symbolizes a place oF Options:
  A) rest
  B) humiliation
  C) torture
  D) fun
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  The correct answer is C .