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 921: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
  Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 922:

  'A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound. Even the very little children seemed to know. Throughout that day Nwoye sat in his mother's hut and tears stood in his eyes.'

  The mood describe in this passage from Things Fall Apart has been bought on by the

  Options:
  A) death of Unoka
  B) killing of Ikemefuna
  C) exiling of Okonkwo
  D) transfer of Mr. Brown
  E) imprisonment of Okonkwo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 923:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'I cannot blind myself

  To putrefying carcasses in the market place

  Pulling giant vultures

  From the sky.

  Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?

  The tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) anger
  C) mourning
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 924: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm, says that during thunderstorm in the village Options:
  A) children play in the rain
  B) children are delighted while women move in and out
  C) both women and children are delighted
  D) women cook their food
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 925:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'Pataki and mustard flowers Like blue and yellow eyes Peep through the green grass'The literary devices used in the lines above from Mohan Singh's 'A village Girl'are

  Options:
  A) enjambment and alliteration
  B) repetition and assonance
  C) rhyme and limerick
  D) simile and irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 926:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.

  He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.

  Meridian by Alice Walker

  The person described in the passage is

  Options:
  A) a lackadaisical person
  B) unsaver
  C) uninteresting
  D) a finicky individual
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 927:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

  Odewale says this because

  Options:
  A) Aderopo is a skilful drummer
  B) he believes that Aderopo is plotting his overthrow
  C) he thinks that Aderopo is mad
  D) Aderopo has not learnt how to drum well.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 928:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) caricature
  C) burlesque
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 929:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 930: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An autobiography becomes a literary work when Options:
  A) it is a faithful account of the author's
  B) it underlines the salient events in the author's life
  C) it relates the author's life to the major events of the day
  D) its value resides principally in its style
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  The correct answer is D .