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 81:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

  Conceived new truths.

  Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

  But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

  These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi

  Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

  Options:
  A) warfare
  B) life
  C) bloodshed
  D) conquest
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 82:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair' The statement above characterizes

  Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 83:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 84:

  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.

  Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

  Options:
  A) lamentation over a dead friend
  B) lamentation over the passing of life
  C) reflection on the passing of life
  D) reflection on nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 85: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.Titubi joins the farmers' revolt Options:
  A) to ensure its success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 86:

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

  The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to

  Options:
  A) the character of Sir Charles Marlow
  B) the prologue songs and the epilogue
  C) male characters
  D) female characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  '...let the greying day grow

  ....let the evening horns blow

  ....let the melting mountains go

  ....but let the sundown sow''

  To Wole with Love' by Atukwei Okai

  The use of the words 'melting mountains' is

  Options:
  A) metaphorical
  B) symbolical
  C) alliterative
  D) rhythmical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 88:

  Okara's reminiscence in the "Piano and Drums" as to how he walks to the farm with no shoes, marching thorns and dangerous leafs, and still finds this enjoyable creates a feeling of___________

  Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) neglect of African culture for civilized styles
  C) clash of culture
  D) confusion
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 89: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native SonThe story is narrated using the Options:
  A) Omniscient
  B) limited omniscient
  C) objective
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 90: A play is a Tragedy when Options:
  A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
  C) there is much blood shed in the play
  D) the main character is a wicked person
  E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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  The correct answer is E .