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 571:

  In Animal Farm, the song

  'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,

  Beasts of every land and clime,

  Hearken to my joyful tidings

  Of the golden future time.was first sung by

  Options:
  A) Snowball
  B) Squealer
  C) Old Major
  D) Napoleon
  E) Bluebell
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 572:

  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.

  ''They too are the earth

  Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.

  Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

  Options:
  A) material for the shoes of the poor
  B) repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
  C) hope of the oppressed for a better life
  D) oppression of the dispossessed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 573: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  What is Dan Magaji's advice on the war with the white man? Options:
  A) Caliph should go into exile
  B) The war should start immediately
  C) the palace should be vacated
  D) Caliph should seek support from neighbours
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 574:

  In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line

  'So drunken like ancient walls'

  Means that the worshipers are drunken with

  Options:
  A) wine served at Olokun's altar
  B) sacred water since Olokun rules the sea
  C) bounties to be bestowned by Olokun
  D) intense awe of Olokun
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 575:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 576:

  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.

  The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 577:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 578: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is Options:
  A) round character
  B) stock character
  C) static character
  D) flat character
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 579:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 580: The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as Options:
  A) disdainful
  B) suspicious
  C) disrespectful
  D) courteous.
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  The correct answer is A .