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 491:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'And by her stood that image of the king in rich apparel, crown and signet-ring'

  The image in the lines above in Morris'

  The Proud King is

  Options:
  A) auditory
  B) gustatory
  C) tactile
  D) visual
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 492:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The witnesses to the tears in the novelare

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 493: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. James: Let me swear, woman. And I will swear by my father's coffin that if....The lines depict James as a Options:
  A) traditionalist
  B) christian
  C) pagan
  D) muslim
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 494: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, The little money Nnaife makes after returning from Fernando PO is used for Options:
  A) expanding Nnu Ego's business
  B) taking care of his framily
  C) sending his children to school
  D) getting more wives
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 495:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'

  The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  C) Mr. Good Country's son
  D) Jesus Christ
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 496:

  The voice of reason in the 'Harvest of Corruption' is exemplified in the character of___________

  Options:
  A) Ochuole
  B) Ogeyi
  C) Madam Hoha
  D) Aloho
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 497:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  What basic character traits are revealed by Bluntschli's description of himself as 'a free citizen' and Raina's reference to him as 'my chocolate cream soldier?

  Options:
  A) Affection and tale-bearing
  B) Facetiousness
  C) Simplicity and naturalness
  D) Obduracy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 498:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

  Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

  Options:
  A) illumination after darkness
  B) an unnecessary evil
  C) a necessary evil
  D) a light provider
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 499:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  Options:
  A) the relationship between a man and a fish
  B) the vain expectations of man
  C) life on the high seas
  D) a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 500:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

  These oily tears

  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

  Will one day be staunched,

  I swear!

  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) supplicatory
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is A .