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 1651:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1652:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'

  John Updike, The Centaur.

  The long haul in the narrative above describes

  Options:
  A) a long strike
  B) Christmas and Easter holidays
  C) a long period of hard work
  D) a long vacation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1653: This question is based on selection poem from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using Options:
  A) monologue
  B) apostrophe
  C) dialogue
  D) admonition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1654: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The main aim of of caricature is to Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasize
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1655:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The author's thematic concern is

  Options:
  A) the boy's assistance to the man
  B) life in a fishing community
  C) the achievements of the old man
  D) the ability to rise above defeat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1656:

  The sides of a stage are called

  Options:
  A) both sides
  B) the ways
  C) the wings
  D) the pits
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1657: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe plot of a story generally refers to the Options:
  A) intrigue made by a character against the hero
  B) way in which the events of the story are organized
  C) way in which the writer begin the story
  D) way the writer ends the story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1658:

  ''When the frog in front falls in a pit, others behind takes caution... When crocodiles eat their own eggs, what will they will they not do to the flesh of a frog?''

  In the context of The Gods Are Not To Blame, the person who made this statement is alleging that king Adetusa

  Options:
  A) died falling in to a pit
  B) fell victim to man eating crocodiles
  C) was killed by the people of Kutuje
  D) was killed by the Ijekun people.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1659: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.'B.S.: Tibenderana; The BastardThe subject of the poem above is Options:
  A) a prostitute
  B) the lying father
  C) the son
  D) the orphan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1660:

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

  Mrs. Hardcastle is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a potential aristocrat
  B) an obedient wife
  C) a frustrated mother
  D) highly unsociable
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  The correct answer is A .