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 131:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 132: Odewale shifts the blame for his tragedy from the gods to himself and claims that his tragedy is a result of his own weakness. The weakness he claims is love of Options:
  A) power
  B) adventure
  C) his tribe
  D) divination.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 133:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

  Charles Dickens, Hard Times

  From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) hostile
  C) theoretical
  D) eloguent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 134:
  From the novel; Othello

  The setting of Shakespeare's Othello is____________

  Options:
  A) Verona
  B) Venice
  C) the Faroe Islands
  D) Bulgaria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 135:

  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.

  The recurrence of the first person pronoun 'I' in Gabriel Okara's 'The callof the River Nun' creates the feeling of

  Options:
  A) detachment
  B) immediacy
  C) alienation
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 136:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The execution of some of the animals on the orders of Napoleon is to

  Options:
  A) prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
  B) make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
  C) achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
  D) pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137: "If you touch me,I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters,The statement above is made by Options:
  A) Manaan to lawyer B
  B) Manaan to Mrs Bonu
  C) James to Awere
  D) Awere to Aaron
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 138: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from Options:
  A) sad complaining voices of beggars
  B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
  C) not listening to the dead
  D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 139:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) repetition
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 140: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .