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 171:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an epic
  C) a ballad
  D) a singer's story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 172:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  Nkem leaves Odilis house because

  Options:
  A) she is not afaithful wife
  B) she wants to keep her marriage
  C) of pressure from outsiders
  D) she is barren
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 173:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  ''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) authoritative
  B) mocking
  C) appreciative
  D) scathing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 174:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A foil in drama is also known as

  Options:
  A) flat character
  B) protagonist
  C) round character
  D) antagonist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 175:

  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 repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

  Options:
  A) making us more conscious of the earth
  B) beautifying the experience the poem describes
  C) accusing us of human insensitivity
  D) enhancing the imagery of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 176: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The author successfully conveys his message through Options:
  A) interior monologue
  B) comedy of manners
  C) satirical performances
  D) comedy of errors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 177:

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

  What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) contrast between the old and the new
  B) conflict between belief and unbelief
  C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
  D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 178:

  "...Lying down in the melting snow.

  There were times we regretted

  The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

  And the silken girls bringing sherbert."The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) nostalgia
  C) sorrow
  D) fear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 179:

  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.

  'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

  Options:
  A) adventurous
  B) drunken
  C) lively
  D) restive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 180:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The friendship between Laye and Marie lasted because

  Options:
  A) they were schoolmates
  B) they had mutual respect for each other
  C) his uncle approved of her
  D) Marie was a beautiful girl
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  The correct answer is B .