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 851: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began
  So be it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  And I could wish my day to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety'.
  My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
  The above poem essentially deals with the theme of Options:
  A) old age
  B) childhood innocence
  C) beauty of the rainbow
  D) fatherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 852:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?

  Options:
  A) A bridle for her horse
  B) A fiddle
  C) Fruit
  D) A set of paints
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 853: "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 854:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Standing on the veranda, I see my sons Alioune and Malick arriving in tears. They are in a pitiable state; torn clothes, bodies covered in dust from a fall, knees bleeding beneath the shorts. There is a larg hole in the right sleeve of Malick's sweater; the arm on the same side hangs down limply. One of the boys supporting him explained to me:

  'A motorcyclist knocked down Malick and Alioune.

  We were playing football'''

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  The use of the present tense in the passage

  Options:
  A) makes it dramatic
  B) heightens its objectivity
  C) captures the narrator's anger
  D) makes it farcical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 855: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
  The sound device used in the extract above is Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 856: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Romantic poetry emphasizes Options:
  A) the beauty of nature
  B) intimate relationships
  C) the love in human nature
  D) the romance in human aspirations
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 857:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

  Options:
  A) explains why the gods are not to blame
  B) narrates the life history of the hero
  C) reminds the principle character of thier functions
  D) explains to the audience the mimed action on the stage.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 858:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A 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. (ed.):West African Verse

  The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
  B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
  C) the danger in the driving profession
  D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 859: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 860:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

  The play portrays the judiciary as

  Options:
  A) unserious and lenient
  B) consistent and just
  C) corrupt and weak
  D) patronising and self-righteous
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  The correct answer is C .