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: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe the tenets of the party, Winston is subjected to all forms of torture and inhuman treatment by Options:
  A) O'Brien
  B) thought police
  C) Big Brother
  D) Goldstein
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 282:

  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 283:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 284:

  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 mood of the poet is one of________

  Options:
  A) loneliness
  B) hopelessness
  C) happiness
  D) recklessness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 285:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 286: 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.Acquah's In The Navel of the Soul describes the Options:
  A) lack of experienced midwives in the society
  B) excesses of the new generation churches and politicians
  C) complications of motherhood and child bearing
  D) conflict between the church and tradition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 287: From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in Options:
  A) ancient times
  B) a hut in a riverine village
  C) a modern city by the sea
  D) the only mansion in the village.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 288:

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

  What is the most striking feature of the setting in the novel?

  Options:
  A) The simple but effective description of the landscape
  B) The reliance on straight forward presentations
  C) The effective employment of contrasts
  D) The use of difficult and mystifying language.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 289:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A primary ballad is associated with

  Options:
  A) educated people
  B) urban folk
  C) the nomads
  D) rural folk
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 290:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Form the viewpoint of the British government, the attack on the Sokoto Caliphate is

  Options:
  A) one of superiority
  B) a war of attrition
  C) one of vengeance
  D) a jihad
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  The correct answer is A .