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 1571:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  In a narration, the first person is

  Options:
  A) the author
  B) a participant
  C) the publisher
  D) an observer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1572:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1573:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  Options:
  A) a pastoral
  B) an epithalamium
  C) a prothalamium
  D) a terza rima
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1574:

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

  The novel is about growth because

  Options:
  A) Farfrae replaces Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge
  B) of socio-economic changes in Casterbridge society
  C) Henchard finally permits Farfrae to woo Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Henchard gradually attains self-awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1575: Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the Options:
  A) rise to fame of the central character
  B) success of the hero or heroine
  C) reward of the hero
  D) sudden change in the fate of the central character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1576: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1577:

  Careened',
  These oily tears
  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
  Will one day be staunched, I swear!
  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) supplicatory
  B) optimistic
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1578: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1579:

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) psycho-consciousness styles
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) shifting style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1580:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

  Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

  Options:
  A) The chiefs
  B) Ologbosere
  C) The royal wives
  D) The soldiers
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  The correct answer is A .