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 181:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven

  Nowhere as absolute as the grave.

  The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is

  Options:
  A) an allusion
  B) a paradox
  C) an anecdote
  D) an oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 183:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

  Options:
  A) herselfas the parent of a nameless child
  B) the world's concern about her breaking social law
  C) herself as a spouseless mother
  D) her inexperience in childcare
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 184:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

  Options:
  A) sub theme
  B) chronology
  C) suspense
  D) causality
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 185:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A denouement in a play

  Options:
  A) causes conflicts
  B) creates conflicts
  C) resolves conflicts
  D) creates catastrophe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 186: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 187:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

  Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) anecdotes
  C) prologue
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 188:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' The road was endless. One road led to a thousand others. Which in turn fed into paths, which fed into dirt tracks, which become streets, which ended in avenues and cul-de-sacs''

  The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

  The description above suggests

  Options:
  A) urban disorder
  B) a labyrinth
  C) clutter
  D) disharmony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 189: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries

  If we weep gently....'

  What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

  Options:
  A) regret and disappointment
  B) disillusion and despair
  C) disdain and disgust
  D) satisfaction and pleasure
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  The correct answer is A .