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 231:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Do not thank me,instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling,vomitting,rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you. But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?

  Answer. Or is the land at peace?

  Are not people ailing and dying

  Ola Rotimi: The God''s Are Not

  To Blame

  Options:
  A) chieftancy tussel
  B) political unrest
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and war
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 232:

  And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied

  Like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even

  Jiggers cannot conquerHorny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

  Options:
  A) sole of a pauper
  B) sole of a soldier
  C) policeman
  D) madman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 233:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationBut the towering earth was tired sitting in one position . She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the extract above IS.

  Options:
  A) sea waves
  B) house movement
  C) earthquake
  D) Storms
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 234: In zambia shall be free Kaunda describes his father as Options:
  A) erratic
  B) a political agitator
  C) wicked
  D) unlucky
  E) strict.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 235:

  This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________

  Options:
  A) Paragraph
  B) Theme
  C) Chapters
  D) Characters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 236:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  The play reaches a turning point when

  Options:
  A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
  B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
  C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
  D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 237: The 'Settings in a novel refers to Options:
  A) the point in the story where we first encounter the main character
  B) the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
  C) the home country of the hero or heroine
  D) the location where the main event in the novel takes place
  E) all the various places mentioned in the novel.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 238:

  "Meka, kneeling down in his usual fashion with his behind up in the air.

  Kelara knelt down beside him.

  Amalia and her husband knelt down as well."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the actions of Meka, Kelara, Amalia and her husband signify

  Options:
  A) parade
  B) dance
  C) prayer
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 239:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'

  In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's

  For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was

  Options:
  A) foressen
  B) predetermined
  C) anticipated
  D) unexpected
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 240: A poem that describes the simple life of rural people is called ___ Options:
  A) elergy
  B) ode
  C) lyrics
  D) pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .