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 191:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In the poem 'Night' Neto suggests that the oppressed

  Options:
  A) do not believe in victory
  B) are never willing to fight for their rights
  C) are no longer willing to fight for their right
  D) are determined to give meaning to their life
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 192:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Yaremi's only son is______?

  Options:
  A) Alani
  B) Wande
  C) Olode
  D) Deyo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 193:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofThe literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

  Options:
  A) alliteration and assonance
  B) simile and irony
  C) repetition and alliteration
  D) rhyme and rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 194:

  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 195: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA ballad is meant to be Options:
  A) acted
  B) discussed
  C) read
  D) sung
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 196: The protagonist of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations is Options:
  A) Drummle
  B) Magwitch
  C) Miss Havishman
  D) Pip.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In the plot of a novel emphasis should be placed on

  Options:
  A) showing casual connection of incidents
  B) the vivid presentation of incidents
  C) the accurate presentation of incidents
  D) narrating the truth of incidents
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 198:

  'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

  In this passage, axe of intemperance means

  Options:
  A) hot temper
  B) cool temper
  C) evil mind
  D) recklessness.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 199: 'My room was the smallest space I'D ever been in on which a door had closed. There was a bed, built in wardrobe, chair and small table, and above in the ceiling was screwed a one-candlepower bulb it really made you feel welcome....'The last statement in this passage is an example of Options:
  A) understatement
  B) overstatement
  C) hyperbole
  D) sarcastic humour
  E) poetic diction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) terror
  B) horror
  C) frustration
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is A .