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 61: The sufferings of the protagonist in Birago Diop's 'vanity' are Options:
  A) caused by circumstance
  B) self-inflicted
  C) imposed on them by enemies
  D) the act of fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 62:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 63:

  This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

  The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

  Options:
  A) inglorious
  B) gentle
  C) wretches
  D) humble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 64:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 65:

  The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapors weep their burden to the ground,

  Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,

  And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The theme of these lines is

  Options:
  A) the falling of leaves
  B) the ground on which the leaves fall
  C) man as a farmer
  D) the power of death over every life
  E) the flight of birds in certain reasons
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 66:

  'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

  The narrator here is full of

  Options:
  A) gloom
  B) fears
  C) doubts
  D) cheer
  E) uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 67:

  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 .
• Question 68:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

  Options:
  A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
  B) loss of man's property
  C) seasonal flow of nature
  D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 69: The antagonist in a tragedy is ________ Options:
  A) any character in the tragedy
  B) the wife of the protagonist
  C) the character who provides comic relief
  D) the character set in opposition to the main character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 70:

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

  The most important objects in the hut are the

  Options:
  A) prayer-rugs
  B) implements used in the workshop
  C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
  D) pcts containng the magic charms
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  The correct answer is D .