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 281:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I am alone

  And the murmur of my lips

  Carry song and tears homewards

  From a plain away from home

  Okogbule Wonodi: Lament for Shola

  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of

  Options:
  A) elation
  B) anger
  C) nostaglgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 282:

  'During this speech the elders who didn't understand a word of what their learned secretary was saying nodded approval intermittently. When it was over the elders said yes, they had a learned man indeed, a man who could speak for them, a man who knew the wisdom of the old white people, not like the small boys nowadays who cant even read a telegram'.

  In these passage the elders are presented as

  Options:
  A) very admireable people
  B) decent and honest
  C) impressed by the secretary
  D) impressively learned
  E) distinctly progressive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 283:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 284:

  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.

  The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 285:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

  Options:
  A) lopsided resolution of conflicts
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) contrived misrepresentation of characters
  D) match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 286:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'

  In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

  Options:
  A) passing of time and shortness of life
  B) swift passing of waves from shore to shore
  C) passing of time from hours to minutes and second
  D) movement of pebbles to the shore
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 287: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Time winged chariot"The line above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress depicts Options:
  A) the measurement of time
  B) how fast events unfold
  C) how fast time flies
  D) the usefulness of time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 288:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'My brother you flash your teeth in response to every hypocrisy.

  My brother with gold-rimmed glasses You give your master a blue-eyed faithful look.

  My poor brother in immaculate evening dress

  Screaming and whispering and pleading in the parlours of condescension'.

  Diop: The Renegade

  The poet's attitude here is

  Options:
  A) paradoxical
  B) envious
  C) ironical
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 289:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Hall to then, blithe spirit!

  Bird thou wert,

  That from Heaven, or near it,

  In profuse strains of unpremeditated art!

  'To A Shylark' by P.B. Shelley

  The main figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) hyperbole
  C) euphemism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 290:

  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.

  The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .