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 741:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.

  Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'

  In the passage above, the sea is

  Options:
  A) romanticised
  B) personified
  C) criticised
  D) praised
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 742:

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

  '...princes master their feelings to fulfil their duties 'Others' bend their heads and, in silence, accept a destiny that oppresses them. That, briefly put, is the internal ordering of our society, with its absurd divisions....'

  In the above excerpt from her letter to Mawdo Ba, Aissatou sees society as

  Options:
  A) benefiting the ruling classes
  B) unequal and unjust
  C) oppressing the working classes
  D) giving every person his just deserts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 743:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"

  Wole Soyinka:NightNight children in the stanza above reflects the consciousness of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 744:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  Boateng describes the writers' studio as a place where

  Options:
  A) writers have been sold
  B) writers work hard at their writings
  C) people discuss real writing
  D) writing materials are sold
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 745:

  Woke, once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved. are

  Sides full nerved still warm too hard

  To stir was it, for this the clay grew

  Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams

  Toil to break earth's sleep at allUse the lines above to answer this questions;The theme of the poem is

  Options:
  A) distortion of life
  B) creation of life
  C) vanity of life
  D) futility of life
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 746:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

  Options:
  A) They are major figures in the drama
  B) They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
  C) The y were friends of the late Ogundele
  D) Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 747: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (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 Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for Options:
  A) swallows
  B) pipistrello
  C) sparrows
  D) owls
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 748:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And makeme,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) personification
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 749:

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

  One of the enriching factors of the comedy is the

  Options:
  A) lopsided resolution of conflicts
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) contrived misrepresentation of characters
  D) match making attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 750:

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

  In the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders

  Options:
  A) travel a lot by air
  B) are haughty
  C) love sunny weather
  D) dislike clouds
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  The correct answer is B .