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 741:

  No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.

  The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.'

  O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.The speaker in the passage is

  Options:
  A) reckless
  B) insane
  C) a coward
  D) a hero
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 742: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The spatial setting of the play is Options:
  A) verona
  B) padua
  C) venice
  D) athens
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 743:

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

  Laye's first-person narrative techinique

  Options:
  A) makes the work very humorous
  B) makes his work less realistic
  C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
  D) makes his story more believable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 744:

  'Have you got any hands today?

  'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

  'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

  'No thank you'.

  In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

  Options:
  A) syncedoche
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 745:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 746: The dominant mood in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of Options:
  A) indignation
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) optimism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 747:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

  Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

  In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) resignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 748:

  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 eye that looks down will surely see the nose

  The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

  The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

  These are

  Options:
  A) watchfulness and awareness
  B) sensitiveness and arrogance
  C) patience and caution
  D) caution and justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 749:

  From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala

  It can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that

  Options:
  A) the secret of happiness is to be found among unsophisticated Africans
  B) every man is free to set his own goals and chart his own course in life
  C) formal education is the ideal way to true wisdom
  D) it is highly rewarding to abide scrupulously by the mores of one's own community.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 750: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he Options:
  A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
  B) was a great lover of freedom
  C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
  D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
  E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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  The correct answer is C .