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 1361: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that Options:
  A) Nnaife's elder brother had died
  B) Nnaife has inherited buildings and properties
  C) Nnaife had lost Ngozi
  D) Nnaife has inherited his brother's wives and children.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1362:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1363:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1364:

  Woke, once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved. are

  Sides full nerved still warm too hard

  To stir was it, for this the clay grew

  Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams

  Toil to break earth's sleep at allUse the lines above to answer this questions;The theme of the poem is

  Options:
  A) distortion of life
  B) creation of life
  C) vanity of life
  D) futility of life
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1365:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses

  The tone of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) interrogative
  C) persuasive
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1366:

  A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the

  Options:
  A) Chorus
  B) Clown
  C) Playwright
  D) Cast
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1367:

  The phrase living death in a literary work is an example_____________

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Prose
  C) Oxymoron
  D) Aside
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1368: How many stanza and lines does William Moris' poem "the proud king" has? Options:
  A) 119 stanzas and 849 lines
  B) 109 stanzas and 849 lines
  C) 119 stanzas and 850 lines
  D) 109 stanzas and 850 lines
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1369: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around Options:
  A) Julia
  B) Big Brother
  C) Winston Smith
  D) O'Brien
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1370:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The author's thematic concern is

  Options:
  A) the boy's assistance to the man
  B) life in a fishing community
  C) the achievements of the old man
  D) the ability to rise above defeat
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  The correct answer is D .