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 1781:

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

  "I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) imagery
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1782:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'My blood is hot, but my flesh is famished...

  The rains have come, the field is prepared,

  But my field remains untilled,...

  The statement above reflects the

  Options:
  A) laziness of the farmer
  B) agony of unfulfilment
  C) agony of a wasted fertility
  D) consequences of an unrequited love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1783: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...
  Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
  The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) visual
  C) tactile
  D) auditory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1784: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  The only two sons of Meka die fighting for Options:
  A) independence
  B) the colonialists
  C) the church
  D) their people
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1785: The subject of 'If You Should Know Me' by Oswald Mtshali is that the Options:
  A) blacks should create a new image for themselves
  B) blacks should get ajusted to the image the whites have created for them
  C) whites should know the blacks very well
  D) whites should deal with the uncompromising blacks
  E) blacks should always be law abiding
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1786:

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed by the director
  B) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  C) attacks the character foil
  D) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1787:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes'.

  Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'

  From the italicized lines above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a

  Options:
  A) convenient setting
  B) contemptuous tone
  C) stark metaphor
  D) graphic description
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1788: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1789: In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger's office located? Options:
  A) Hammersmith
  B) Soho
  C) Warworth
  D) Richmond
  E) Little Britain.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1790: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
  The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago'.In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker Options:
  A) abhors polygamy
  B) has become impotent
  C) is a crafty seducer
  D) is disgusted with life
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  The correct answer is A .