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 911:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 912:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'

  Gabriel Okara: The Voice

  It can be inferred from the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is a porter
  B) listener is wise
  C) speaker is a murderer
  D) speaker is more experienced
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 913:

  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 poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

  Options:
  A) defiance and protest
  B) arrogance and complacency
  C) nonchalance and pride
  D) violence and aggression
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 914: "That that is why we must acc-c-cept the uni-versal d-d-dome, b-b-because ththere is no d-d-ddirection. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of religion and b-b-bridges d-don't jjjjust g-g-go from hhhere to the there; a bridge also faces backwards". Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
  The idiolectical feature of the character's speech is the Options:
  A) repetition of consonant sounds
  B) repetition of initial consonant sounds
  C) duplication of consonant sound clusters
  D) multiplication of diphthongs
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 915:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  Milton's On His Blindness teaches human beings to

  Options:
  A) discountenance physical disabilities
  B) regard disabilities as enduring
  C) keep on struggling endlessly
  D) use their talents sparingly
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 916: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 917: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African VerseThe use of enjambment in Cheney-Coker's Myopia emphasizes the Options:
  A) anger of the peasants
  B) beauty of the poem
  C) distressed mood of the persona
  D) arrangement of the stanzas
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 918:

  Baba Fakunle: How much did he give you boy?

  Boy: Ten cowries, Baba.

  Baba Fakunle: Hand him back nine.

  The order to return nine cowries was given by Baba Fakunle because he

  Options:
  A) wanted to spit the King by taking only one cowrie
  B) felt insulted that he was given only ten cowries
  C) did not want to meddle with leprous monry given with bloody hands
  D) wanted to emphasize that the messanger of Olodumare takes only one cowrie.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 919: Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife? Options:
  A) xuma
  B) Leah
  C) Ma plank
  D) Dladia
  E) Joseph.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 920: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through Options:
  A) the complaints of Biddy
  B) the pretensions of Pumblechook
  C) his rejection by Estella
  D) the death of his sister
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  The correct answer is A .