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 261:

  "Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

  Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

  Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

  Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

  People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

  Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

  Options:
  A) more radiant
  B) more colourful
  C) less awkward
  D) less scheming
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 262: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 263:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 264:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

  Options:
  A) round character
  B) flat character
  C) rounded character
  D) major character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 265: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 266:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Those years of my travels. Years of innocence and experience...months of twidding my thumbs with insecurity in search of my true people. Yes in search of my true people. But wherever I went I did not find people but caricatures of people who insisted on being taken seriously as people Perhaps I was on the wrong planet.

  In the wrong skin.

  Dambudzo- Marechera, Black Sunlight.

  The passage above expresses the state of mind of

  Options:
  A) an alienated man
  B) an adventurer
  C) a renegade soldir
  D) a prisoner
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 267:

  "Nightfall! Nightfall!! You are my mortal enemy". The dominant figure of speech above is a/an________

  Options:
  A) Ode
  B) Apostrophe
  C) Allusion
  D) Metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 268: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.In the novel, Asejire refers to a Options:
  A) river
  B) town
  C) farmer
  D) cleric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 269: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to Options:
  A) the thought police
  B) individuals
  C) the government
  D) the party
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 270:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .