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 1221:

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

  '''I, Michael Henchard, on this morning;..., do take an oath before God here in this Solemn place...

  And this I swear upon the book before me;... !''

  The oath above is taken when

  Options:
  A) Henchard gets married to Susan
  B) Henchard collects five guineas as the prize for Susan
  C) Henchard swears to stop taking strong liquros
  D) Newson returns Susan to Henchard
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1222: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1223:

  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) trance
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) labyrinth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1224:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) a ballad
  C) an elegy
  D) a pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1225: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Ona on her dying bed appeals to Agbadi to Options:
  A) give her a befitting burial
  B) take good care of her children
  C) take another wife
  D) allow Nnu Ego marry a man of her choice
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1226:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....How can i look at Oyo and say i

  Hate long shiny cars? How can i

  Come to the children and despise

  International schools?

  And Koomson comes, and the

  Family sees Jesus Christ in him....The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1227:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Li's initial aspiration in the novel is to

  Options:
  A) escape from village life to the city
  B) marry a handsome man
  C) join her husband in the city
  D) remain in the peaceful village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1228:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
  "for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

  The poetic device used in this expression is____

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) irony
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1229: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1230: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began
  So be it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  And I could wish my day to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety'.
  My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
  The above poem essentially deals with the theme of Options:
  A) old age
  B) childhood innocence
  C) beauty of the rainbow
  D) fatherhood
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  The correct answer is C .