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 1131:

  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 1132:

  Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
  Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
  sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
  Wole Soyinka: "Night"

  The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1133:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synedoche
  D) metonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1134:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1135: Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate Options:
  A) his longing for death
  B) the child's inability to understand
  C) his yearning for his parents
  D) his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1136:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  ''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''

  What is ironical about this statement ?

  Options:
  A) The speaker is Binetou's friend
  B) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's husband
  C) Binetou is the speaker's rival
  D) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's father
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1137:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The setting in pastoral poetry is usually

  Options:
  A) oceanic
  B) urban
  C) encumenical
  D) idyllic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1138:

  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 rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo' s Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  Options:
  A) an octave
  B) a quatrain
  C) a couplet
  D) a sestet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1139:

  "The sun used to smile in my hut".

  The line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) Rhetorical Question
  D) Zeugma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1140: 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 .