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 1741:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

  These oily tears

  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

  Will one day be staunched,

  I swear!

  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) supplicatory
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1742: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the novel explores the theme of Options:
  A) child quest of an African woman
  B) exploitation of the African woman
  C) sex discrimination in Ghana
  D) women liberation in Nigeria
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1743:

  A story which explains a natural phenomenon is_______

  Options:
  A) parable
  B) legend
  C) myth
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1744: A well known epic in English literature is Options:
  A) Robinson Crusoe
  B) The Marchant of Venice
  C) Sons and Lovers
  D) Treasure Island
  E) paradise lost.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1745: In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he Options:
  A) he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
  B) had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
  C) failed to bring back Niam's wife
  D) failed to understand his father.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1746:

  'Folk all fade. And whither.

  As i wait alone where the fair was?

  Into the clammy and numbing night fog

  Whence they entered hither

  Soon one more goes thither!

  In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

  Options:
  A) a night in the poet's life
  B) unpleasant weather conditions
  C) life's problem and misfortunes
  D) the state before birth and after death
  E) darkness after sunset
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1747: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1748:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The Christs

  Are still in performing miracles

  In the market places

  Heroding the masses with imperatives

  Feeding the hungry

  With 21-gun salutes

  For victories that are yet to be won.'

  Odia Ofeimun, 'The Messiahs'

  The attitude of the poet to his subject in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) sarcastic
  C) benevolent
  D) explosive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1749: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1750:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .