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 491:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The novel is set in the

  Options:
  A) white peaks of the Canary Islands
  B) fishing coast of Havana
  C) fishing coast of Cienfuegos
  D) fishing village of Casablanca
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 492: "Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face" The excerpt above exemplifies _______? Options:
  A) Irony
  B) synedoche
  C) symbolism
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 493:

  The writer of a poem is called__________?

  Options:
  A) Author
  B) Poet
  C) Writer
  D) Narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 494:

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

  '....a man who brings ant-ridden faggots into his hut should expect the visit of lizards...

  What does Nwaka refer to as 'ant-ridden faggots' in this context?

  Options:
  A) The visit of the court messenger
  B) The unexpected consultation of Ezeulu with the chiefs of Umuaro
  C) The friendship between Ezeulu and the whiteman
  D) Ezeulu's rejection of the kind gesture of some chiefs to accompany him to Okperi
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 495:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The father permits his son to go to Paris because he

  Options:
  A) sees no future in traditional African ways
  B) is encouraged by the missionaries
  C) wants him to be future leader
  D) wishes to free him from blacksmithing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 496:

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

  '' This madness which they say you have must now begin to know its bounds. You are telling me to go and find cassava for you...''

  In view of the speaker's aim, this statement is

  Options:
  A) ambiguous
  B) hyperbolic
  C) ironic
  D) an understatement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 497:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair' The statement above characterizes

  Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 498: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to Options:
  A) his beloved country for which he yearns
  B) his love
  C) his love interfused with yearning for his country
  D) a not easily discernible subject.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 499:

  'Chini was breathing with a love ripeness in her eye. She was elegant, sophistication, and Nigerian costume with charm. her every movement stimulated a flow of poetry from Francois and an ebb of embarrassment from her. she called him "My mad French lover".'

  The tone of this passage is

  Options:
  A) sensual
  B) detached
  C) playful
  D) stimulating.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 500:

  'Sweet are the uses of adversity

  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head'

  The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It' is

  Options:
  A) Jacques
  B) Orlando
  C) Adams
  D) Duke senior
  E) Le Bosu.
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  The correct answer is D .