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 1091:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The dominant impression of the first person narrative in the novel gives it

  Options:
  A) an omniscient character
  B) an epistolary character
  C) a biographical character
  D) an autobiographical character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1092: This question is based on selected poem 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 silence of the battlefield heralds the widow's anguish.'
  The widow in the lines above in Launko's End of the War is in anguish because of the
  Options:
  A) confirmation of her husband's death
  B) uncertainty over husband returning alive
  C) delay in the husband's return from the battlefield
  D) death of all the soldiers in the battlefield
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1093:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the

  Options:
  A) relieveing effect of the song on the reaper's
  B) enduring impact of the reaper's song
  C) sweetest human voice of the poet ever heard
  D) similarity between the voice of the reaper and the cuckoo-bird
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1094:

  Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Concrete
  C) Conflict
  D) Confident
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1095:

  UZAZAKPO:

  In my madness, I served Oba Adolo, your

  Father. That same madness has helped me

  Keep my body in this palace as jester under

  Your full moon. If you will listen to me and my

  Madness, I will tell you frankly that the way you

  Talked to the chiefs was not the right way'

  The play above is basically a

  Options:
  A) tragi-comedy
  B) historical tragedy
  C) dramatic tragedy
  D) documentary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1096:

  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 1097:

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

  '...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songs

  We learn to dance to half familiar half strange rhythms...'

  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 1098: A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called Options:
  A) a soliloquy
  B) a tragi-comedy
  C) an epic
  D) an epigram.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1099:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1100:

  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 .