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 601: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) West African Verse.In Owonibi's Homeless, not Hopeless, the persona explains that street beggars Options:
  A) are concerned with their daily needs
  B) always worry about heaven
  C) rarely sleep and dream
  D) attend conferences in towns
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 602:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

  Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

  Dapped cells

  Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

  As night thieves."

  Wole Soyinka: NightThe dominant mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 603:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 604: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand Options:
  A) Friar Laurence
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Balthasar
  D) Friar John
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 605:

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

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 606:

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed by the director
  B) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  C) attacks the character foil
  D) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 607:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

  Options:
  A) assist in the development of the characters
  B) sustain the reader's interest
  C) reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
  D) slow down the pace of the plot development
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 608: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.This novel can be described as Options:
  A) satirical
  B) metaphysical
  C) paradoxical
  D) allegorical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 609:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 610:

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

  The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

  Options:
  A) the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  B) the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  C) all those who join the new religion would become lepers
  D) religion invites diseases
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  The correct answer is A .