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 J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

  Options:
  A) take to prostition
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abando their husbands
  D) abadon their children
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 22: The hero of The Trials of Brother Jero is Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the Old Prophet
  C) the politician
  D) Brother Chume
  E) Brother Jero
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 23:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of

  Options:
  A) Prophet Elijah's trance
  B) Badejo's antigraft posture
  C) the campaign for parliamentary election
  D) the increase in cocoa prices
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 24:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 25:

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

  The basic idea of any given work of art is its

  Options:
  A) imagery
  B) style
  C) theme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 26:

  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."Listen...they will tell you...

  To beat drums is mere children's play,

  The adult's is to start echoes...The lines above from Launkos' End of the War, enhance the

  Options:
  A) language of the poem
  B) use of imagery
  C) rhyme of the poem
  D) rythm of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 27:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 29: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Monometer is a Options:
  A) single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel'
  B) line repeated in the first syllable of a word
  C) single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
  D) line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .