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 181:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182:

  In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line

  'So drunken like ancient walls'

  Means that the worshipers are drunken with

  Options:
  A) wine served at Olokun's altar
  B) sacred water since Olokun rules the sea
  C) bounties to be bestowned by Olokun
  D) intense awe of Olokun
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 183: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 184: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 185: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 186: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Orwell attempts to Options:
  A) satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
  B) eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
  C) condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
  D) laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 187:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

  Options:
  A) grasshoppers
  B) bed-bugs
  C) bat
  D) cockroaches
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 188:

  'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
  And got with our bags and our brushes to work
  Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) is working indoors
  B) is wearing warm clothes
  C) is doing his duty
  D) has just woken from sleep
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Listen...they will tell you...

  To beat drums is mere children's play,

  The adult's is to start echoes...The lines above from Launkos' End of the War, enhance the

  Options:
  A) language of the poem
  B) use of imagery
  C) rhyme of the poem
  D) rythm of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:

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

  'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is

  Options:
  A) going to hunt lions
  B) still determined and hopefu
  C) afraid of future struggle
  D) about to enter new jungles
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  The correct answer is B .