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 2021: The phrase the sunset in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation refers to Options:
  A) old age
  B) patience
  C) caution
  D) critical need
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2022:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2023:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2024:

  FIRST BODYGUARD: A madman wanting to see the king! The world, indeed, is mad OJUOLA: How do you know he is a madman?

  Which of the following is the answer given by the second bodyguard to Ojuola in The Gods Are Not To Blame?

  Options:
  A) everyone can see he is mad, your highness
  B) only a madman would want to see the king now, your highness
  C) we all know him very well, your highness
  D) he is not a man of our tribe, your highness.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2025:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A paradox is

  Options:
  A) applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
  B) a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
  C) an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
  D) an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2026:

  'We are all diseas'd,

  And with our surfeiting, and wanton hours,

  Have brought ourselves into a burning fever

  And we must bleed for it'.

  The images in the passage mostly draw attention to

  Options:
  A) fun
  B) ill heath
  C) carelessness
  D) sacrifice
  E) dicting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2027:

  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 2028: This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A 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. (ed.): West African Verse.''As if men hung here unblown,Their mildewed buds of love like pollenLate caught, damp in a swollen ...The sound device in the stanza above from Kalu Uka''s ''Earth to Earth'' is Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) refrain
  C) rhyme
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2029: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of Options:
  A) quatrain and imagery
  B) rhyme andsimile
  C) onomatopoeia and alliteration
  D) alliteration and personification
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2030:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .