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 281:

  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 poet-persona in Serenade is

  Options:
  A) boastful
  B) arrogant
  C) persuasive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 282:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 283:

  This question is on Literary Appreciation

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'

  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) derisive
  B) ironic
  C) melancholic
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 284:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The story of the play would have been different but for

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
  B) Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
  C) the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
  D) Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 285:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The morning mist

  And chimney smoke

  Of White City Jabavu

  Flowed thick yellow

  As pus oozing

  From a gigantic sore'

  'An Abandoned Bundle' by Oswald M. Mtsha 'i

  The simile above gives rise to

  Options:
  A) a graphic description
  B) an abstract presentation
  C) a philosophical statement
  D) graffitti
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 286: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 287: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Biokun: I did it for her!Let theme laugh!
  Let them condemn me. I who have always derided superstition. I have gone back to the shrine of Olokun. At least if he dies, Oroki will know I tried everything.
  Femi Osofisan:No More the Wasted Breed
  Biokun's mood in this passage is one of
  Options:
  A) desperation
  B) frustration
  C) anger
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 288: This question is based on the Literary Appreciation'' To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower.Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.''William Blake, To Sea a World in a Grain of SandThe predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 289: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 290:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go.

  Whilst some of their sad friends do say '' The breath goes now', and some say ''No''

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) appreciative
  B) serious
  C) imaginative
  D) conversational
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  The correct answer is B .