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 Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.'I wish him luck with his infidel friends But he must remember that there is only one moon at a time, one sun at a time'

  The speaker in the passage above is referring to a

  Options:
  A) moon gazer
  B) slave raider
  C) muezzin
  D) usurper
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1742:

  These questions are based on Literary Appreciation'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.

  Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

  The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

  Options:
  A) frustration
  B) sympathy
  C) dilemma
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1743:

  "Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air.

  Kelara knelt down beside him.

  Amalia and her husband knelt down as well."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the actions of Meka, Kelara, Amalia and her husband signify

  Options:
  A) parade
  B) dance
  C) prayer
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1744:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals

  Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the prophet
  C) Jero's house
  D) Chume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1745:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.

  Move him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Wake, once,the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs. so dear achieved, are

  Sides Full nerved still warm too hard to stir Was it, for this the clay grew tall?O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all.

  THE POEM CAN BE DESCRIBED AS

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1746:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) personification
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1747:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1748: 'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of Options:
  A) understatement
  B) overstatement
  C) hyperbole
  D) sarcastic humour
  E) poetic diction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1749:

  "Will college make you a better Olokun

  Priest?

  Will it make you serve our ancestors

  Better?

  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-

  Hearted priest

  Of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1750:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

  Options:
  A) food
  B) job
  C) security
  D) power
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  The correct answer is C .