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 Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

  The play portrays the judiciary as

  Options:
  A) unserious and lenient
  B) consistent and just
  C) corrupt and weak
  D) patronising and self-righteous
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 22: 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.In Owonibi's Homeless, not Hopeless, the persona explains that street beggars Options:
  A) are concerned with their daily needs
  B) always worry about heaven
  C) rarely sleep and dream
  D) attend conferences in towns
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 23:

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

  '... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...

  This description refers to

  Options:
  A) Modou Fall
  B) Mawdo Ba
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Aissatou
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 24:

  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 is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'

  In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) symbol
  C) allusion
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 25: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.The poet persona in Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is willing to praise the ladies eyes for Options:
  A) six decades
  B) two centuries
  C) a century
  D) thirty thousand years
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 26: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27: The narrator in Mission to Kala is Options:
  A) Mongo Beti
  B) Medza
  C) Mama
  D) Niam
  E) Zambo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 28:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name is

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Desdemona
  C) the Duke
  D) lago
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 29:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  He was an odd-looking duck, Inman was.

  He was in his mid-fifties but still had a head of thick black hair, which began low on his forehead and was slicked back over his small round.

  He seemed to be made of a series of balls piled one atop the other.

  Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full

  The author's attitude to inman in the passage above is one of

  Options:
  A) ridicule
  B) praise
  C) hatred
  D) admiration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 30:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  '''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''

  The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the

  Options:
  A) misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
  B) outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
  C) sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
  D) ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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  The correct answer is B .