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 41:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): 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.

  In Robert Frost's 'Wild Grapes', the girl's brother throws down grapes in the manner he does to

  Options:
  A) make his sister have her fill
  B) allow himself time-in-between to eat
  C) make his sister desire to climb the tree
  D) allow hinself to have some fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 42: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. 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 (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Cope's Sonnet VII, poets are presented as Options:
  A) recluses
  B) travellers
  C) sociologists
  D) researchers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 43: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New ManIn terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as Options:
  A) conformists
  B) liberals
  C) fanatics
  D) puritans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 44: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Big Brother metaphorizes a Options:
  A) totalitarian authority
  B) benevolent leader
  C) revolutionary leader
  D) party brotherhood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 45:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 46:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 47:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 48:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 49: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of Options:
  A) simile
  B) anaphora
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50: The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is Options:
  A) action
  B) inertia
  C) nostalgia
  D) cowardice
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  The correct answer is B .