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 861:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel......Aha! Here comes Sadiku

  Do you bring some balm

  To soothe the smart of my misused armpit

  Away, your enemy!'

  What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

  Options:
  A) An antiseptic ointment
  B) A special method of massage
  C) News about Sidi
  D) A gourd of palm wine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 862:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Poor bastard,

  Dumped on the ground to make room

  For his nocturnal fathers,

  Or on the mat to spend his horrid nights

  Among the steaming pots of food

  And walking rats.'

  ''The Bastard'' by B.S. Tibenderana

  The picture presented above is one of

  Options:
  A) loneliness
  B) hunger
  C) desolation
  D) squalor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 863: 'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) paradox
  C) euphemism
  D) allusion.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 864: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 865:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the important tales of heroes of the past era
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 866:

  'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

  Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

  The speaker of these words is the father of

  Options:
  A) Bikokolo
  B) Niam
  C) Albert
  D) Medza.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 867:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem without a regular rhyme scheme is a

  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) ballad
  C) lyrical poem
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 868:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  Santiago loses his catch to the sharks because

  Options:
  A) the blood attracts them
  B) he does not sail home early
  C) the sharks are predators
  D) it is too dark
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 869: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 870:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'My first interview with the manager was curious...

  He was commonplace in complexion, in feature, in manners and in voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe'.

  Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  In the passage above, the manager is described as being

  Options:
  A) determined
  B) warm
  C) sociable
  D) hostile
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  The correct answer is D .