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 BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 182:

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

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 183:

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

  '''I wish the boy was here...'''

  The old man's cry demonstrates

  Options:
  A) a desperation for productivity
  B) bitterness
  C) humiliation
  D) a yearning for human brotherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 184: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersPaternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) Fosuwa
  B) Hannah
  C) Mrs. Bonu
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 185:

  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.

  In Naked soles, Adeoti writes that the carnival of naked soles dances through

  Options:
  A) scorching sun
  B) blooming thorns
  C) a cloudy atmosphere
  D) a dirty room
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186:

  The dominant mood in Tennyson's Crossing the Bar is that of___________

  Options:
  A) Acceptance
  B) Anxiety
  C) Uncertainty
  D) Readiness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'If we must die, let it not be like hogs

  Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

  While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs

  Making their mock at our accursed lot.'

  Claude Mickay, 'If We Must Die'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) disgust
  B) indignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 188:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of Options:
  A) an implacable destructive force
  B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
  C) a welcome and benevolent force
  D) a sinister and ominous force.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 190:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.

  'See what a scourage is laid upon your hate

  That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

  And I, for winking at your discords too,

  Have lost a brace of kinsmen...'

  The speaker of these lines is

  Options:
  A) Capulet
  B) prince Escalus
  C) Mountague
  D) Friar Lawrence.
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  The correct answer is B .