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 1001:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1002:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1003:

  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 1004:

  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 1005: A character whose name is also the source of the title of the narrative is called ___? Options:
  A) round
  B) eponymous
  C) flat
  D) tittled
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1006:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'

  Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'

  The tone of the lines above is

  Options:
  A) satiric
  B) sarcastic
  C) indicting
  D) self-pitying
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1007: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An autobiography becomes a literary work when Options:
  A) it is a faithful account of the author's
  B) it underlines the salient events in the author's life
  C) it relates the author's life to the major events of the day
  D) its value resides principally in its style
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1008:

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

  What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) contrast between the old and the new
  B) conflict between belief and unbelief
  C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
  D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1009:

  'A white ball of fire tore through the dome of the night. It exploded into the branches of a colossal tree of fire - whose stem instantly leapt towards the earth'.

  The passage directs is appeal primarily to the sense of

  Options:
  A) hearing
  B) sight
  C) touch
  D) smell.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1010: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption"Trust me. My duty is to convince her to play ball with him and then the usual commission keeps rolling in, shee you get?..."The speaker in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) Aloho
  B) Ogeyi
  C) Odili
  D) Ochuole
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  The correct answer is D .