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 1321:

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

  Mrs. Newson refuses to reward the furmity seller for disclosing the whereabout of Henchard because she

  Options:
  A) has little money for her
  B) condisers the trade in furmity unscrupulous
  C) thinks it is not respectable to talk to the old women
  D) has learned what she wanted from the old woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1322:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1323:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  Kofi Billy's right leg was cut off by a machine in the novel because

  Options:
  A) the young Englishman loaded too much tension into the steel ropes
  B) he had been playing at work with the steel ropes
  C) the steel ropes were old, slack and gave way
  D) he had always wanted a wooden leg
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1324:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1325:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1326: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.Marvell, in To His Coy Mistress uses the imagery of death to Options:
  A) appreciates God's power
  B) condemn the lady
  C) scare the lady
  D) underscore life's transcience
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1327:

  This question is based on selected poems from D.I. Nwoga's (ed.): West African Verse.

  The title of Birago Diop's 'Vanity', is intrigue because the people described in the poem are

  Options:
  A) inglorious
  B) gentle
  C) wretches
  D) humble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1328:

  The bustle in a house

  The morning after death

  Is solemnest of industries

  Enacted upon earth-

  The sweeping up the heart

  And putting love away

  We shall not want to use again

  Until eternity.

  The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

  Options:
  A) misplaced anxiety
  B) great relief
  C) solemn resignation
  D) morbid fear.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1329:

  From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.

  The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) understatement
  C) sarcasm
  D) synecdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1330:

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.

  Options:
  A) purgation
  B) peripeteia
  C) hubris
  D) anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .