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 181:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Othello kills Desdemona because the_______

  Options:
  A) former is jealous
  B) former's race is insulted
  C) latter is a witch
  D) latter is an idol
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 183:

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

  The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of

  Options:
  A) lkaki
  B) Ekpe
  C) Udje
  D) Etiyeri
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 184:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) she runs away
  B) she is awake
  C) she falls asleep
  D) she is dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 185:

  'The celebration is now ended

  But the echoes are all around

  Whirling like a harmattan

  Whirl-wind throwing dust around

  And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

  Options:
  A) brought peace to the land
  B) did not kead to joyful times
  C) did not recieve general approval
  D) produced more merriment
  E) affected climate conditions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 186:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  Ezeulu sent his son, Oduche, to join the Christians because

  Options:
  A) of his great love for the whiteman
  B) he had come to distrust the power of Ulu
  C) he did not want Oduche to succeed him as chief priest
  D) he wanted a representative in the group in case they became powerful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

  Unruly sun

  Why dost thou thus

  Through windows

  And through curtains

  Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe figure of speech involved in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) pun
  C) simile
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 188:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189: When the speech is written so as to be understood in one way by a certain character, while the audience or another character understands it to have some secret and special meaning, the literary device used in this context is called Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) paradox
  C) allusion
  D) hyperbole.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

  The novel can be described as__________?

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) antagonistic
  C) persuasive
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is D .