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 801:

  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.

  David Diop's Loser of Everything can be seen as

  Options:
  A) a lamentation of the destruction of African values
  B) the suppression of an African village
  C) a celebration of African values
  D) an account of warfare between an African community and an invading force
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 802:

  'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours...'

  The description of the town in this passage suggests

  Options:
  A) peaceful co-existence
  B) lack of progress
  C) warmth and friendliness
  D) organized living
  E) monotony
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 803:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  '...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

  Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

  If she passes this way, I am gone,

  I am gone to load my gun

  No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

  By my father's coffin I swear

  I'll shoot my way to it this day;

  Son of the hunter King

  There is liquid fire in my gun!

  ' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

  The beauty of this poem is built upon its

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) extended images of treasure and gun
  C) the protagonist's boastfulness
  D) the arrangement of the lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 804:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 805:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

  Options:
  A) Adah's unifaithfulness to Francis
  B) the influence of British culture
  C) Adah's desire for personal fulfilment
  D) external pressures on the couple
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 806: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 807:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  The dominant technique in the book is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) foreshadowing
  C) symbolism
  D) reminiscence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 808: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to Options:
  A) give her a befitting burial
  B) take good care of her children
  C) take another wife
  D) allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 809:

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

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 810:

  The voice of reason in the 'Harvest of Corruption' is exemplified in the character of___________

  Options:
  A) Ochuole
  B) Ogeyi
  C) Madam Hoha
  D) Aloho
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  The correct answer is B .