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 151:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's Faceless may be best described as a___________

  Options:
  A) Travelogue
  B) Satire
  C) Lampoon
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 152:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'We have come to the crossroads

  And I must either leave or come with you

  I lingered over the choice

  But in the darkness of my doubts

  You lifted the lamp of love

  And I saw in your face

  The road that I should take',

  'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

  The poem ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) indecision
  B) despair
  C) hope
  D) determination
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 153:

  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 154: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 155:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 156:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157:

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

  The play is built on

  Options:
  A) mistaken identities
  B) sentiments and realities
  C) comedy of errors
  D) conttrasts of characters and ideas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 158:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) fable
  C) prose
  D) picaresque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 159:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  '... In spite of your voice and your gift of oratory, you preferred obscure work, less well paid but constructive for your country,...

  This description refers to

  Options:
  A) Modou Fall
  B) Mawdo Ba
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Aissatou
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 160: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In literary work, verbal irony refers to a Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the trend of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a logical or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says
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  The correct answer is A .