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 1071:

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Melancholic
  B) Ironic
  C) Harsh
  D) Derisive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1072:

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

  'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'

  Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?

  Options:
  A) He says Donald must not befriend Elizabeth - Jane
  B) He asks Abel Whittle to go to Blackmoor vale half naked
  C) He dismisses Jopp, his former manager
  D) He decides not to marry Lucetta on Susan's return.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1073: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1074:

  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.

  The Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is

  Options:
  A) his family name
  B) a wedding ring
  C) his aristocratic class
  D) the title of a Duchess
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1075:

  These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

  The novel draws a picture of

  Options:
  A) a useless past
  B) an unstable moment
  C) a peaceful atmosphere
  D) a totalitarian future
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1076:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) labyrinth
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) trance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1077:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1078:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
  B) set of three players written by the same authors
  C) collection of three poems of equal length
  D) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1079:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?

  If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?

  The literary style used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) discursive
  B) rhetorical
  C) accusative
  D) interrogative
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1080: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .