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 1401:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'

  Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

  The style of writing in the passage can be described as

  Options:
  A) introspective
  B) confused
  C) confrontational
  D) passive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1402: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1403:

  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 persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as

  Options:
  A) a perfectly realistic representation of the Duchess
  B) not quite capturing the Duchess emotions
  C) his most highly prized item
  D) something he is willing to pay dowry for
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1404:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

  Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

  The character in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) talking
  B) sleeping
  C) reading a literature book
  D) day-dreaming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1405:

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

  The old man's experience is a lesson in

  Options:
  A) endurance and hardwork
  B) happiness and reliance
  C) indolence and regret
  D) achievement and celebration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1406:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The setting in pastoral poetry is usually

  Options:
  A) oceanic
  B) urban
  C) encumenical
  D) idyllic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1407:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The use of the traditional verse from in the play applies to

  Options:
  A) the character of Sir Charles Marlow
  B) the prologue songs and the epilogue
  C) male characters
  D) female characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1408:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1409:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Point of denouement in a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) point at which the major character is shown in his true colours
  B) point of disagreement in a narrative
  C) point of the resolution of the puzzling issues
  D) cathartic point in a tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1410: Which of the following is central to narrative friction ? Options:
  A) Verisimilitude
  B) Dialogue
  C) Objectivity
  D) Subjectivity
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  The correct answer is C .