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 981: 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.The predominant device in Launko's End of war is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) oxymoron
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 982: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.The cap-picking ceremony is to Options:
  A) break the strong will of Yaremi
  B) make Yaremi remarry
  C) establish that she is wicked
  D) prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 983: In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he Options:
  A) he did not seem to have any particular plans forn his life
  B) had a bad reputation at college as a person with bad manners
  C) failed to bring back Niam's wife
  D) failed to understand his father.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 984: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with Options:
  A) disdain
  B) indifference
  C) honour
  D) kid gloves
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 985:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'

  Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being

  Options:
  A) paradoxical
  B) anttithetical
  C) illogical
  D) tautological
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 986: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime, the worst calamity that can befall a woman is Options:
  A) barreness
  B) inability to bear male children
  C) inability to marry
  D) divorce
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 987:

  Read the extract below and answer this question.

  But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the above extract is

  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) house movement
  C) sea waves
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 988: Who accompanied Kongi on his retreat Options:
  A) Oba Danlola
  B) No one
  C) Seyi
  D) Daodu
  E) The secretary
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 989:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at comp"
  The device used in the line above is__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Pun
  C) Metaphor
  D) Paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 990: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is Options:
  A) pastoral
  B) ballad
  C) romance
  D) epic
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  The correct answer is A .