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 21: The effect of Pip's association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him Options:
  A) realize that he was an orphan
  B) despair of even being a gentle man
  C) aspire to improve his education and make himself less common
  D) love Biddy more ardently.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 22:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

  Options:
  A) the principles of conflict
  B) exciting and memorable episodes
  C) the use of figurative language
  D) recurring events
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 23: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 24:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.'Night, and Abiku sucks the oil

  From lamps'.

  Options:
  A) Abiku drinks oil
  B) For Abiku, oil is water
  C) while other babies suck the breast, Abiku sucks oil
  D) The lamp is kept burning all night on account of Abiku
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 25:

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

  '...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'

  What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

  Options:
  A) Tony is in reality without a fortune
  B) Tony is not a man of consequence
  C) Marlow is too bashful and reserved
  D) Tony has not had a good breeding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 26:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) confidentiality
  C) authenticity
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27:

  "If

  A provoked houseboy

  Cannot match his

  Wicked master

  Strength with strength,

  He maims the master's favorite

  Goat!"Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

  Options:
  A) the Oba should be placated
  B) he and Esasoyen were arrested
  C) Uwangue Egiebo was murdered
  D) he was rude to the Oba
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 28:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth concerned with the

  Options:
  A) fertilization of the earth by moisture
  B) loss of man's property
  C) seasonal flow of nature
  D) happy beginning and sad end of life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 29:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  Kofi Billy's right leg was cut off by a machine in the novel because

  Options:
  A) the young Englishman loaded too much tension into the steel ropes
  B) he had been playing at work with the steel ropes
  C) the steel ropes were old, slack and gave way
  D) he had always wanted a wooden leg
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 30: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'My song is the root touching other roots in a covenant below the crust...
  Niyi Osundara: Waiting Laughters
  The imagery used in the second line of the extract above is Options:
  A) olfactory
  B) visual
  C) tactile
  D) auditory
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  The correct answer is B .