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 1781:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1782: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to Options:
  A) give her a befitting burial
  B) take good care of her children
  C) take another wife
  D) allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1783:

  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 1784: "Since I came to this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the speaker above is Options:
  A) the Catechist
  B) Nua
  C) Nkolo
  D) the Commandant
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1785:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1786: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  How does Lugard describe the battle between the white man and the Sokoto Caliphate? Options:
  A) One between superior and inferior powers
  B) One of life and death
  C) One between Christians and Muslims
  D) One of the superiority of wills
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1787: An over-used expression is Options:
  A) a cliche
  B) a cacophony
  C) an epigram
  D) an archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1788:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

  E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

  In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

  Options:
  A) cannibalism
  B) monstrosity
  C) evil
  D) doom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1789: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1790:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A 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. (ed.):West African Verse

  The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
  B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
  C) the danger in the driving profession
  D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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  The correct answer is A .