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 1251:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  The guilty are too well-fed to pass through the needle's eye of our scorn the noose of public contempt hangs idle at the market place'

  Odia Ofeimun: The Poet Lied and other poems The allusion in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) mythical
  B) biblical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1252:

  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.

  Dzogbesa Lisa in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' can be equated to

  Options:
  A) salvation
  B) despondence
  C) poverty
  D) fate
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1253: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) a simile
  C) a personification
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1254: Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate Options:
  A) his longing for death
  B) the child's inability to understand
  C) his yearning for his parents
  D) his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1255:

  Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

  
  "I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
  Shall share with me this little bed.
  And make me,from my sweet dreams be lost,
  by sucking blood from my poor head...
  Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

  The lines are an example of a________?

  Options:
  A) limerick
  B) lampoon
  C) light verse
  D) light opera
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1256:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1257: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born,the Chichidodo is hypocritical because it hates Options:
  A) shit
  B) maggots
  C) maggots but eats shit
  D) shit but eats maggots
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1258: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1259:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

  Options:
  A) joy
  B) hate
  C) love
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1260:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  'Phases' in the novel refers to

  Options:
  A) phases of the moon and their effects on the plot
  B) moments of awareness of Tess'misfortune
  C) points of conflict between good and evil
  D) stages of development in the life of Tess
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  The correct answer is D .