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 151: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.In Kufi the death of a husband is treated with Options:
  A) indifference
  B) suspicion
  C) elation
  D) anger
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 152:

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

  In Odia Ofeimun's 'The Prodigals', the attitude of the returnees is best described as

  Options:
  A) remorseful
  B) unrepentant
  C) hopeful
  D) despondent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 153:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154: This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.Laye learns early in life that his society respects Options:
  A) spirits and ghosts
  B) human beings and spirits
  C) animals and witches
  D) gold and magicians
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 155: Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he Options:
  A) is used as a foil to Pip
  B) provides the comedy in the story
  C) helped to bring Pip up by hand
  D) nursed Pip when he was sick in London.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 156:

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

  'What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!

  The past in the extract above refers to

  Options:
  A) Odibe
  B) Norman
  C) Chris
  D) Odili
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 157: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 158:

  The writer of a poem is called__________?

  Options:
  A) Author
  B) Poet
  C) Writer
  D) Narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 159:

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

  'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

  You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Mawdo
  B) her mother-in-law
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Tamsir
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 160:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .