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 501: Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he Options:
  A) paid the largest dowry
  B) showed the greatest love for her
  C) bribed property man
  D) was a friend of Anansewa's father
  E) paid her school fees.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 502: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life's spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that Options:
  A) life is full of care
  B) there can't be life without stive
  C) life is worthwhile without care
  D) strive makes life worth living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 503:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

  Odewale says this because

  Options:
  A) Aderopo is a skilful drummer
  B) he believes that Aderopo is plotting his overthrow
  C) he thinks that Aderopo is mad
  D) Aderopo has not learnt how to drum well.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 504:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'In those days

  When civilization kicked us in the face

  When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'

  David Diop: The vulture

  The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) simile
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 505:

  ''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''

  In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

  Options:
  A) died falling in to a pit
  B) fell victim to man eating crocodiles
  C) was killed by the people of Kutuje
  D) was killed by the Ijekun people.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 506:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 507:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In Odia Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals', the attitude of the returnees is best described as

  Options:
  A) remorseful
  B) unrepentant
  C) hopeful
  D) despondent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 508:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Which of the following qualities best describes Jero's ability to keep his followers?

  Options:
  A) He is a man of God
  B) He distributes gifts to his followers
  C) He foretells their future
  D) He manipulates them
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 509:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called

  Options:
  A) an oratorio
  B) a motet
  C) an opera
  D) a concert
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 510:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...

  Lord of the Files by William Golding

  'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

  Options:
  A) gentle response of the animal being roasted
  B) rudeness of the animal to the hunter
  C) gentle process of roasting on the fire
  D) fropping of the fat of the meat in the fire
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  The correct answer is D .