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 191: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.'B.S.: Tibenderana; The BastardThe subject of the poem above is Options:
  A) a prostitute
  B) the lying father
  C) the son
  D) the orphan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 192: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 193: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
  Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
  The writer of the above passage is Options:
  A) jealous of rich and influential people
  B) overwhelmed by the power of money
  C) contemptuous of the poor
  D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 194: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the. Options:
  A) subjective
  B) first-person
  C) third-person
  D) objective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 195:

  A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......

  Options:
  A) a satire
  B) a masque
  C) a fable
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 196:

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

  Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because

  Options:
  A) the Ring was a meeting-warden for lovers
  B) the Ring was a spot for appointments of furtive kind
  C) Susan was ashamed to come over to his house
  D) his reputation as the church-warden and mayor was at stake
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197: In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it Options:
  A) prevents Magwitch's immediate death by prolonging his life
  B) enables Magwitch to confirm Pip's as his heir
  C) recalls Herbert's nursing of Pip
  D) shows Pip's moral regeneration.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 198:

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

  In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 199: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.In the play, social change is achieved through Options:
  A) collectivism
  B) sectionalism
  C) individual
  D) communism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 200:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?

  Options:
  A) her parents
  B) Jimmy
  C) Helena
  D) Cliff
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  The correct answer is D .