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 51:

  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 52:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

  Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

  Options:
  A) The chiefs
  B) Ologbosere
  C) The royal wives
  D) The soldiers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 53:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 54:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven

  Nowhere as absolute as the grave.

  The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is

  Options:
  A) an allusion
  B) a paradox
  C) an anecdote
  D) an oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 55:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 56:

  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 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

  Options:
  A) non-concern for space
  B) willingness to take an apartment anywhere
  C) critical need for accommodation
  D) awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 57:

  The bar in Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" is a symbol for the___________

  Options:
  A) presence of God's and his guiding force
  B) world
  C) boundary between life and death
  D) grave
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 58: The dominant attitude in T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the magi's is Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) total satisfaction
  C) ambivalence
  D) disgust
  E) pessimism.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 59: 'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) paradox
  C) euphemism
  D) allusion.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 60:

  _______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake

  Options:
  A) Tragic flaw
  B) Hubris
  C) Denouement
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is D .