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 1921:

  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.

  Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

  Options:
  A) the poet had fought in many wars
  B) of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
  C) of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
  D) of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1922:

  In drama, comic reliefs often occur in_______

  Options:
  A) comedies
  B) tragedies
  C) historical plays
  D) romantic plays
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1923:

  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 1924:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above end in a literary device known as

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) conceit
  C) transfered epithet
  D) rhetorical question
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1925:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1926: In As You Like It, the verse which begins ' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about Options:
  A) a storm in winter
  B) man's ingratitude
  C) Duk Senior cave
  D) Le Beau's love for Snowballs
  E) Oriando's love for Rosalind
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1927:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???

  Options:
  A) White
  B) Red
  C) Black
  D) Green
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1928:

  The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____

  Options:
  A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
  B) of the need for human survival
  C) God wants man to feel less of himself
  D) of the space for God's worship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1929:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's Faceless may be best described as a___________

  Options:
  A) Travelogue
  B) Satire
  C) Lampoon
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1930:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'One man with a head

  Shaven clean as a potato

  Whispered to the rising sun,

  A red eye wiped by a tattered

  Handkerchief of clouds.'

  Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

  The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

  Options:
  A) metaphor and onomatopoeia
  B) simile and metonymy
  C) metaphor and simile
  D) personification and onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .