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 1671:

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) a record of the writer's experience during a journey
  B) the account of the experiences of an individual during his lifeline
  C) the account of the travails of a character in a novel
  D) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1672:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'Red booth, Red pillar-box Red double-tiered Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!....'

  These lines from Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation show that the poet

  Options:
  A) appreciates the environment of his experience
  B) is insensitive to his experience
  C) is unable to believe his experience
  D) believes both his environment and experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1673:

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

  Kofi Billy's right leg was cut off by a machine in the novel because

  Options:
  A) the young Englishman loaded too much tension into the steel ropes
  B) he had been playing at work with the steel ropes
  C) the steel ropes were old, slack and gave way
  D) he had always wanted a wooden leg
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1674:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The ode and the elegy are examples of

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) lyrical poetry
  C) narrative poetry
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1675: ''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to Options:
  A) Mr. Punblechoo
  B) Mr. Wemmick
  C) Mr. Drummle.
  D) Mr. Brown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1676:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed): West African verse.

  "If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast"

  The literary device in the extract above from Herbert's The Pulley is

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) personification
  C) oxymoron
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1677:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.The most significant factors driving members to Jero's church in the play are

  Options:
  A) poverty and dissatisfaction
  B) fulfilment and security
  C) wealth and ignorance
  D) poverty and lust for power
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1678:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1679:

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

  As suggested in Agostinho Neto's 'Night', the problems the problem of the blackman today drive mostly from

  Options:
  A) the persistance of a superstitious life style that creates only mystery and terror in an otherwise englightened world
  B) a fate that made his skin colour indentical to that of night
  C) the lack of a clear sense of direction coupled with years of oppression that weakened his will
  D) too much haste to catch up with the rest of the world as a result of which the basic structures of development are not being properly laid down
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1680:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground,

  And tell sad stories of the death of kings;

  How some have been deposed, some slain in war

  Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed

  Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,

  All murdered;

  William Shakespeare:King Richard II

  The subject matter of the speech above is

  Options:
  A) regicide
  B) suicide
  C) infanticide
  D) parricide
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  The correct answer is A .