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 1851: 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.In Owonibi's Homeless, not Hopeless, the persona explains that street beggars Options:
  A) are concerned with their daily needs
  B) always worry about heaven
  C) rarely sleep and dream
  D) attend conferences in towns
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1852: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents Options:
  A) Benvolio is a troublemaker
  B) Benvolio is a cabinet maker
  C) Benvolio is kingmaker
  D) Benvolio is a peacemaker
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1853:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1854:

  Aloho begins her harvest of corruption when____________

  Options:
  A) she found out the truth about Chief Ade Amaka
  B) she discovered she was 3 months pregnant and abortion was impossible
  C) her best friend warned her about the deceitfulness of Chief Ade Amaka
  D) she eventually died after giving birth to a baby girl
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1855:

  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 1856:

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) condemn
  B) elaborate
  C) abuse
  D) praise
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1857:

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

  The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

  Options:
  A) ignorance and poverty
  B) modrnization and foreign culture
  C) Christianity and the quest for wealth
  D) witchcraft and Christianity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1858:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand;

  O! that I wore a glove upon that hand

  That predominant figure of speech in these lines is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) apostrophe
  C) caricature
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1859: The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is Options:
  A) action
  B) inertia
  C) nostalgia
  D) cowardice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1860: An ode is best described as a Options:
  A) story told in poetic from
  B) poetic composition of fourteen lines
  C) narration about nature and natural objects
  D) lyrical poem addressed to some persons things
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  The correct answer is D .