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 1141:

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

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1142:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The most sensitive of Jero's disciples is

  Options:
  A) the Faithful Penitent
  B) Brother Chume
  C) the Old Couple
  D) the woman with the exposed thigh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1143: Which of the following terms is exclusive to drama? Options:
  A) Dialogue
  B) Plot
  C) Protagonist
  D) Soliloguy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1144:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.'The reception for this third marriage was being held at the home of the young girl's parents. In this, ancient custom was being more tan just respected, it was revived. The house had been invaded since early morning.

  Male female griots welcomed guests'.

  Sembene Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The atmosphere captured in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) solemn and gay
  B) joyful and gloomy
  C) grandiose and joyful
  D) gracious and solemn
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1145:

  A story which explains a natural phenomenon is_______

  Options:
  A) parable
  B) legend
  C) myth
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1146:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  ...I am the twinkle of a Jewel

  But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'

  These lines suggest that

  Options:
  A) Sidi is superior to the Bale
  B) Sidi is weaker than the Bale
  C) Sidi is clever than the Bale
  D) the Bale is violent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1147:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1148:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1149:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

  Options:
  A) orchard of Macbeth
  B) witches' enclave
  C) forest of Dunsinane
  D) death-place of King Duncan
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1150:

  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 .