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 41:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

  Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

  "The free bird thinks of another
  breeze / and the trade winds
  soft through the sighing trees"

  What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

  Options:
  A) It shows where the bird sleeps
  B) It shows the tree is sleeping
  C) It indicates that the bird is carefree
  D) It indicates that it is still early in the day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 42:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 43:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'And so Tom awake and we rose in the dark

  And got with our bags and our brushes to work

  Though the morning was cold. Tom was happy and warm;

  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above. Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) has just woken from sleep
  B) is doing his duty
  C) is wearing warm clothes
  D) is working indoors
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 44: Kongi's harvest is Options:
  A) a political drama
  B) social comedy
  C) a play about natural rulers
  D) a historical tragedy
  E) a domestic comedy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 45: As a literary from the short story is most closely related to Options:
  A) poetry
  B) the discourse
  C) tregedy
  D) the novel
  E) drama.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 46:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The story in the book is told from the point of view of

  Options:
  A) Nwabunor
  B) Obanua
  C) a first person narrator
  D) a third person narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 47: In Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka dramatizes Options:
  A) the fall of a great man
  B) the rise of a carpenters brigade
  C) the tragedy of Seyi
  D) the growth and development of political tyranny
  E) the distruction of a great African country
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 49:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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 Owl is used by Ojaide in this poem as a

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) symbol
  C) simile
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 50:

  The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

  Options:
  A) concept
  B) myth
  C) ritual
  D) motif
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  The correct answer is D .