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 91:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that mourns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) bereaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 92: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of Options:
  A) an implacable destructive force
  B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
  C) a welcome and benevolent force
  D) a sinister and ominous force.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 93:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A couplet refers to

  Options:
  A) two successive lines of rhyming verse
  B) two stanzas that cannot stand alone
  C) four irregular verses in stanzas
  D) poetry that is actd on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 94:

  Literature is studied as a subject at school because

  Options:
  A) it exposes students to the realities of life
  B) it provides entertainment
  C) it merely gives additional work to students
  D) it teaches the use of words
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 95:

  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 96:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  One of the enriching features of the play is the

  Options:
  A) matchmaking attempts by Mrs. Hardcastle
  B) manipulation of appearance and reality
  C) use of rural and urban settings
  D) lopsided resolution of conflicts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 97:

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

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 98:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.

  Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'

  In the passage above, the sea is

  Options:
  A) romanticised
  B) personified
  C) criticised
  D) praised
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 99: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options.The stressed syllables are written in capital letters departmental Options:
  A) DEpartmental
  B) dePARTmental
  C) departMENtal
  D) departmenTAL
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 100: Based on Ferdinand Oyono's the Old Man and the Medal, for his sacrifices to the church, Meka gets Options:
  A) a place near an aged leper
  B) a land to build a new house
  C) appointed into the church elders' council
  D) the privilegde to choose a permanent place to sit
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  The correct answer is C .