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 351:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?

  Options:
  A) happiness
  B) sorrow
  C) freedom
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 352: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The sides of a stage are called Options:
  A) the ways
  B) both sides
  C) the pits
  D) the wings
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 353: The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as Options:
  A) calm
  B) agitated
  C) cheerful
  D) aggressive
  E) uneasy.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 354: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.Kufi is a Options:
  A) Christian community
  B) pagan society
  C) Muslim community
  D) traditional society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 355:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called

  Options:
  A) clairvoyance
  B) inspiration
  C) invocation
  D) nemesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 356: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 357:

  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.

  What is the poet-persona's feeling for the reaper in Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper'?

  Options:
  A) Pity
  B) Admiration
  C) Hatred
  D) Delight
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 358:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

  Options:
  A) warriors
  B) Germans
  C) Mzee
  D) listeners
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 359:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 360: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
  'Go tell Overami that he has nothing to fear from the white men in matter of fair play....'In the above statement, the White man expects Ovonramwen to Options:
  A) allow the Whiteman free access to Benin
  B) accept gifts from the Whiteman in exchange for land
  C) surrender himself to the whiteman
  D) surrender his chiefs who are in hiding
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  The correct answer is C .