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 951: 'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of Options:
  A) analogies
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) apostrophes
  D) exaggerations
  E) similes.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 952:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

  The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

  The plowman homeward plods his weary way;

  And leaves the world to darkness and to me .

  In the lines above from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', the imagery is

  Options:
  A) of an approaching night in a rustic setting
  B) about a village under a curfew one night
  C) of an approaching death in a village
  D) of a man abandoned in his homeward journey
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 953:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  Catherine's natural looks portray her as a

  Options:
  A) sophisticated lady
  B) soldier's wife
  C) mountain farmer's wife
  D) business woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 954: Zambia Shall Be Free is a Options:
  A) biography
  B) autobiography
  C) novel
  D) novella
  E) short story.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 955:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals

  Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the prophet
  C) Jero's house
  D) Chume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 956:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff's household can best be described as

  Options:
  A) arrogant and insolent
  B) opportunistic and self-centered
  C) haughty and presumptuous
  D) bold and self-assured
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 957:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 958:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was not the apple that tempted Eve, but this grapefruit; thus did maren revise the tale of Paradise Lost, and even Chris, shocked as he was at such blasphemy,confessed himself tempted to agree whenever maren returned from raiding the Principal's compound, with a shirtful of booty to share, especially on a hot afternoon.'

  Wole Soyinka: Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir

  The passage above achieves a mock-heroic effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) meiosis
  B) epigram
  C) allusion
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 959: In Shakespeare''s Macbeth, the central character-Macbeth-is Options:
  A) a Russhian general
  B) a Scottish general
  C) a Finnish general
  D) an English general
  E) a German general
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 960:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .