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 751:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In literary work, setting refers to the

  Options:
  A) starting point of the story
  B) sum total of physical, social and historical circumstances
  C) orderly arrangement of episodes
  D) point at which the fortunes of the hero begin to decline
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 752:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.

  In Naked soles, Adeoti writes that the carnival of naked soles dances through

  Options:
  A) scorching sun
  B) blooming thorns
  C) a cloudy atmosphere
  D) a dirty room
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 753: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Launko's End of the War portrays the Options:
  A) silence of battlefield
  B) irony of life
  C) arrangement of war
  D) usefulness of praise singers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 754:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'

  Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'

  The tone of the lines above is

  Options:
  A) satiric
  B) sarcastic
  C) indicting
  D) self-pitying
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 755: 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."Time winged chariot"The line above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress depicts Options:
  A) the measurement of time
  B) how fast events unfold
  C) how fast time flies
  D) the usefulness of time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 756:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 757:

  A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......

  Options:
  A) a satire
  B) a masque
  C) a fable
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 758:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'There was something very disturbing about his features today, there was something which suggested an untidiness of a sort rather like a cotton dress washed in salty water and worn until it reeks of human sweet. There was something very vulnerable about his looks, something quite restless.

  Nuruddin Farah, 'Sweet and Sour Milk'

  The passage above illustrates the use of

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) deus ex machina
  C) trance
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 759:

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

  The most important objects in the hut are the

  Options:
  A) prayer-rugs
  B) implements used in the workshop
  C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
  D) pcts containng the magic charms
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 760: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwrite
  B) by an unpopular novelist
  C) on a journey
  D) before the death of the author
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  The correct answer is C .