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 801: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 802:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it

  Options:
  A) correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
  B) predicts the coming of military rulers
  C) pictures the return of politicians to the scene
  D) picture the poet going to hell
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 803:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.'I hear your call

  I hear if far away

  I hear it break the circle'

  The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

  Options:
  A) refrain
  B) parallelism
  C) chorus
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 804:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  The novel is about growth because

  Options:
  A) Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
  B) of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
  C) Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Henchard gradually attains self-awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 805:

  ... may be said to be a critical subject of concern in Blake's "School Boy"

  Options:
  A) adventurism
  B) futility of life and time
  C) moral rectitude
  D) academic development
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 806:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

  Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

  The character in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) talking
  B) sleeping
  C) reading a literature book
  D) day-dreaming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 807: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 808:

  In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

  Options:
  A) fear of natural disasters
  B) uncertainties of life
  C) futility of war
  D) essence of mankind and nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 809: "He had knocked his toes against so many things that he had no toenails anymore and the yaws he had suffered from his youth had twisted his toes up so that they pointed to the sky"Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal,the description above is in reference to the foot of Options:
  A) Kelara
  B) Meka
  C) Egamba
  D) Mvondo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 810:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .