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 341:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 342:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'I love to pass my fingers,

  As tide through weeds of the sea

  And wind the tall fern-fronds

  Through the strands of your hair

  Dark as night that screens the naked moon.'

  J.P. Clark, 'Olokun'

  The dominant poetic techniques employed in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) alliteration
  C) rhythm
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 343:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 344: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 345:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun

  My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;

  But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun

  Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;

  And, having done that, thou hast done,

  I fear no more.'

  These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) quibble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 346:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example ofThe literacy devices used in the lines 'Pataki and Mustard flowers like blue and yellow eyes peep through the green grass' are________from Mohan Singh's 'A Village Girl'

  Options:
  A) alliteration and assonance
  B) simile and irony
  C) repetition and alliteration
  D) rhyme and rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 347:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 348: 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 349: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
  The time has come when I can fool myself no more I am no man Sadiku My manhood Ended near a week ago'.In the light of subsequent happenings, these word reveal that the speaker Options:
  A) abhors polygamy
  B) has become impotent
  C) is a crafty seducer
  D) is disgusted with life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 350:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

  Options:
  A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
  B) his affection for his uncle
  C) the strength of communal living in Africa
  D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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  The correct answer is C .