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 391:

  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 392:

  '...He would be crown'd.

  How that may change his nature, there's the question

  It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.

  And that craves wary walking...'

  According to this passage, the crowning of Julius Caesar is

  Options:
  A) extremely desirable
  B) bound to change Caesar's nature for the better
  C) bound to promote the breeding of adders
  D) something to be approached with great caution
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 393:

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) formal and elaborate style and humour
  C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 394: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Genres of literature aptly describes Options:
  A) tradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
  B) ode, elegy, sonnet
  C) short story, novel, autobiography
  D) poetry, prose , drama
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 395:

  'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

  The narrator here is full of

  Options:
  A) gloom
  B) fears
  C) doubts
  D) cheer
  E) uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 396:

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

  The dominant tone of the novel is one of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) anger
  C) despondency
  D) militancy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 397:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 398: 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 399:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The object of the extract is____?

  Options:
  A) childishness
  B) the unchanging cycle of nature
  C) the adverse effect of old age
  D) human being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 400: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The main aim of of caricature is to Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasize
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .