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 301:

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

  '....One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs knock one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.'

  On what occasion do these lines occur in the novel?

  Options:
  A) At the burial ceremony of Ramatoulaye's husband
  B) After the confession of Ramatoulaye's daughter, that she was pregnant
  C) When Ramatoulaye was learning to drive the Flat 125
  D) When Ramatoulaye saw her mother sick in bed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 302:

  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 Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 303:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent

  I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's

  Fluorescence, dance on the pulse

  Incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night

  The lines above suggests that women are

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) seers
  C) magicians
  D) covetous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 304:

  'And now the bells are chiming

  A year is born

  'And my heart bell is ringing

  In a dawn'

  The writer of these words is in a state of

  Options:
  A) exuberance
  B) dejection
  C) despair
  D) joyful hope
  E) dismal sorrow.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 305:

  "The sun used to smile in my hut".

  The line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) Rhetorical Question
  D) Zeugma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 306:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 307:

  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

  Options:
  A) harrangue
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) saga
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 308:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The image of Beelzebub in the novel effectively captures the character of

  Options:
  A) Simon
  B) Ralph
  C) Bill
  D) Jack
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 309:

  'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,

  Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.

  In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for

  Options:
  A) friendliness
  B) insecurity
  C) innocence
  D) fertility
  E) safety.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 310:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .