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 1491:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1492:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1493:

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

  'You just wait, I'll tell you more

  But let me first sell my tomatoes'.

  These two lines from Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka'

  Reveal the poet's true state of

  Options:
  A) delight
  B) reality
  C) fear
  D) dream
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1494:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!

  Life and desire and dreams and death

  Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,

  The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) praise
  C) symbolism
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1495:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1496:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???

  Options:
  A) White
  B) Red
  C) Black
  D) Green
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1497:

  *For seven days it rained that June;
  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
  complained in his hair.
  John Updike, Wash

  The image set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) rain and flood in June
  B) discomfort and likely destruction
  C) the days of Noah
  D) an animal insects and fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1498:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

  The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

  But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.

  Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  Options:
  A) Koomson
  B) Oyo
  C) The man
  D) Teacher
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1499: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.Brigadier General Johnson's plan to assassinate President Monye is revealed to Options:
  A) Biola Denji
  B) the SAB superior
  C) the President's ADC
  D) a friend
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1500:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless

  The dominant tone of the novel is one of

  Options:
  A) bitterness
  B) hope
  C) fear
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .