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 1391: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1392:

  A character whose action or qualities serve to heighten those of the hero through contrast is__________

  Options:
  A) an antagonist
  B) a foil
  C) an adversary
  D) a protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1393:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's

  'Snake' refers to

  Options:
  A) culture
  B) primitive instincts
  C) the hissing sound of a snake
  D) someone whispering to himself
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1394:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1395:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

  Options:
  A) the humiliation that is in old age
  B) man's refudeal to grow old
  C) different types of characters in the story
  D) the failing productivity that accompanies old age
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1396: A didactic piece is one in which the writer Options:
  A) teaches human lessons
  B) condemns human foibles
  C) dictates to his readers
  D) discusses dialectic themes
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1397: 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 major theme of Thomas Gray''s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is that death renders life Options:
  A) meaningless for the rich
  B) meaningful for the poor
  C) meaningless for all
  D) meaningful for all
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1398:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1399:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1400: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,the character associated with savagery in the play is Options:
  A) Ferdinand
  B) Ariel
  C) Stephano
  D) Caliban
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  The correct answer is A .