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 551:

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

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 552:

  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 553: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 554:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the

  Options:
  A) childhood fun
  B) only set in a crown of thorns
  C) gory details
  D) wicked sappor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 555:

  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.

  There is a predominance of words associated with________

  Options:
  A) governance
  B) nature
  C) nurture
  D) celebration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 556:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 557: Alliteration is Options:
  A) the use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
  B) the repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
  C) usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 558: Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of Options:
  A) power
  B) adventure
  C) his tribe
  D) divination.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 559: 'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.'One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is Options:
  A) education
  B) slavery
  C) colonisation
  D) corruption
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 560:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The oilbean in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage refers to

  Options:
  A) one of the totems of Idoto
  B) the only totem of Idoto
  C) the abundance of oilbean trees by the river
  D) the use of the oilbean for magical purposes
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  The correct answer is A .