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 711:

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

  The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

  Options:
  A) man
  B) blindness
  C) sleep
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 712:

  In The Marriage of Anansewa, to which character

  Do the following praise-names refer?

  'Oh Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin

  Mighty-Tree-of-Ancient-Origin

  Rooted in the shrine of deity

  Countless branches in which

  Benighted wandering birds

  Are welcome to shelter'

  Options:
  A) Togbe Klu IV
  B) Chief of the Mines
  C) Chief-Who-Is-Chief
  D) Chief of Sapa
  E) property Man.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 713:

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

  The preoccupation of the novel is

  Options:
  A) the life and times of Julian Odili
  B) Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
  C) the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
  D) the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 714:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 715:

  There is a tide in the affairs of man

  Which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune;

  Omitted, all the voyage of their life

  Is bound in shadows, and miseries.

  This is a statement made by

  Options:
  A) Antonu, urging Caesar to take the crown
  B) Cassius, urging Brutus to join the struggle to remove Caesar before he grows into tyrant
  C) Brutus, urging that Cassius and himself lead out their forces to meet those of Antony and Octavius at Philippi
  D) Casca, urging that the conspirators explain their cause to the populace before their motives are misunderstood
  E) Messala, urging Titinius to search for Pindarus.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 716: In addition to describing scenes of an African village night, Senghor's poem, 'Nuit de Sine' makes a definite statement about Options:
  A) black soldiers killed in Europe
  B) fishermen diving in the sea
  C) technological development in Africa
  D) population movement fron rural to urban centres
  E) communicating with dead ancestors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 717: The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) allusion
  C) hyperbole
  D) dramatic irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 718:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he rose; shook a crumb or two from his waist coat, and expanding his broad chest, smiled happily, not because he felt particularly light-hearted his happy smile was simply the result of a good digestion.

  The character referred to in this passage

  Options:
  A) is excited by the news in the paper
  B) is lonely and unhappy
  C) has spent a long time over his food
  D) is pleased with himself after a good meal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 719:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 720:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .