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 91:

  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 setting of T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) coldness
  B) confusion
  C) faiety
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 92: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. 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: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of the Options:
  A) bats
  B) scenery
  C) scene
  D) creatures
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 93:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 94: 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; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the
  Options:
  A) increment of fortune for the pilgrims
  B) blind acceptance of faith
  C) hazards of the journey
  D) journey as an influential factor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 95:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to

  Options:
  A) the character of Sir Charles Marlow
  B) the prologue songs and the epilogue
  C) male characters
  D) female characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 96:

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

  Options:
  A) a symbol
  B) an irony
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 97:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  '...He risked his life that you may boast

  A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-

  You sell him to the rhyming rabble

  Gloating in your disloyalty...

  In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

  Options:
  A) clowns who wait on the Bale
  B) children in Lakunle's school
  C) professional singers
  D) the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 98: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 99:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In Agostinho Neto's 'Night', night basically symbolises

  Options:
  A) Political oppression
  B) social deprivation
  C) moral depravity
  D) spiritual decay
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 100: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) George
  B) Awere
  C) Hannah
  D) Awao
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  The correct answer is A .