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 711:

  This question is on Literary Appreciation

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'

  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) derisive
  B) ironic
  C) melancholic
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 712:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

  your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

  I think ....

  CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

  JERO: You must take her home tonight...

  Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  Options:
  A) keep his secret secret
  B) get the beating out of the way quickly
  C) enable jero get into his house
  D) keep Chume's loyalty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 713: These question are 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; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Rubadiri's An African Thunderstorm can be described as Options:
  A) traditional
  B) satiritical
  C) didactic
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 714: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, is devised to Options:
  A) meet the ideological needs of lngsoc
  B) help devoted party men and women
  C) provide a medium of expression for world view only
  D) assist by cutting the choice of words for party members
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 715: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  Winston Smith begins his rebellion against the power of the state by Options:
  A) purchasing arms
  B) keeping a private diary
  C) opposing the law
  D) educating the youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 716: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 717:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  For Young Marlow, which of the following is the most objectionable aspect of marriage?

  Options:
  A) Rigours of formal courtship
  B) Being introduced to a wife
  C) Demands by in-laws
  D) Demands by the wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 718:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 719:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'

  In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's

  For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was

  Options:
  A) foressen
  B) predetermined
  C) anticipated
  D) unexpected
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 720: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'You do not have to be brutal to be a soldier, or rather you are brutal not because you are a soldier, but because there is a murderer in you who is waiting for war and army uniforms to give them expression.'Festus lyayi:HeroesThe speaker here contends that Options:
  A) soldiers are generally wicked
  B) human nature has to do with a profession
  C) soldiers are characteristically gentle
  D) the latent brutality in man finds expression in war
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  The correct answer is B .