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 selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

  The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

  Options:
  A) inglorious
  B) gentle
  C) wretches
  D) humble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 182:

  UZAZAKPO:

  In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your

  Father. That same madness has helped me

  Keep my body in this palace as jester under

  Your full moon. If you will listen to me and my

  Madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you

  Talked to the chiefs was not the right way'

  The play above is basically a

  Options:
  A) tragi-comedy
  B) historical tragedy
  C) dramatic tragedy
  D) documentary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 183:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 184: 'Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour'. Brutus' words in the above lines come Options:
  A) after the conclution of the plan to kill caesar
  B) soon after his wife's insisted to know the object of his unusual brooding
  C) as part of his famous address to his fellow Romans
  D) during a brief meeting between him and Cassius on how to counter the forces of Octavius and Antony
  E) after his defeat by the forces of Octavius and Antony.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 185: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 186:

  When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
  I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) protest
  C) rejection
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 188:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  At one point in the novel, Jack paints his face

  This act can be interpreted to mean

  Options:
  A) regression into savagery
  B) that he is now fully ready for the dance
  C) an attempt to hide from the other children
  D) an attempt to hide from the animals he wishes to hunt
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 189:

  From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala

  It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that

  Options:
  A) the secret of happiness is to be found among unsophisticated Africans
  B) every man is free to set his own goals and chart his own course in life
  C) formal education is the ideal way to true wisdom
  D) it is highly rewarding to abide scrupulously by the mores of one's own community.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 190:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'Returning is not possible

  And going forward is a great difficulty'

  Sorrow' depict

  Options:
  A) inevitablilty of fate
  B) coollctive failure
  C) progress with stubbornness
  D) individual tragedy
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  The correct answer is A .