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 21:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 22: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom? Options:
  A) Domination of the kingdom and its trade
  B) Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
  C) Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
  D) Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 23:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 24: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by Options:
  A) hope and agreement
  B) freedom and self-determination
  C) pricks and tears
  D) dissapointed and disarray
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 25: This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of Options:
  A) fable
  B) euphemism
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 26: 'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of Options:
  A) excitement
  B) warmth
  C) hopefulness
  D) high spirits
  E) sadness.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 27:

  'Folk all fade. And whither.

  As i wait alone where the fair was?

  Into the clammy and numbing night fog

  Whence they entered hither

  Soon one more goes thither!

  In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

  Options:
  A) a night in the poet's life
  B) unpleasant weather conditions
  C) life's problem and misfortunes
  D) the state before birth and after death
  E) darkness after sunset
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 28: In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes Options:
  A) arrogance
  B) childishness
  C) intellectualism
  D) ignorance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 29:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

  Options:
  A) fable
  B) personification
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 30:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .