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 261: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 262:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  Yon solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;

  Stop here, or gently pass!

  Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,

  And sings a melancholy strain;

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is

  Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) abcabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 263:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 264:

  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.

  Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

  Options:
  A) lamentation over a dead friend
  B) lamentation over the passing of life
  C) reflection on the passing of life
  D) reflection on nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 265:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The theme of the poem is__________

  Options:
  A) drought and heat
  B) abomination and retribution
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and disease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 266:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by

  Options:
  A) a famale prophet
  B) Desdemona's maid
  C) Othello's mother
  D) Othello's lover.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 267: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of Options:
  A) Peace
  B) Plenty
  C) Love
  D) Truth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 268:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 269:

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) psycho-consciousness styles
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) shifting style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 270:

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

  '...and we learn to sing half familiar half strange songs

  We learn to dance to half familiar half strange rhythms...'

  Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .