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 451: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersA brother to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) George
  B) Awere
  C) Hannah
  D) Awao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 452: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  The main concern of Winston in the novel is to Options:
  A) take power for himself
  B) acquire wealth
  C) overthrow the party
  D) bring social change
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 453:

  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 454:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.

  George Orwell: Animal Farm

  Form the passage above, the character being described is

  Options:
  A) enthusiastic
  B) altruistic
  C) cynical
  D) lazy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 455:

  "In Oyo's eyes there was now real gratitude.

  Perhaps for the first time in their married life the

  Man could believe that she was glad to have him

  The way he was."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?

  Options:
  A) The man's moral uprightnesswas vindicted at the end
  B) She decided to love the man with all his weaknesses
  C) She realized that money was not everything
  D) The man suddenly came by a lot of money
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 456:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

  Charles Dickens, Hard Times

  From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) hostile
  C) theoretical
  D) eloguent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 457:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'

  Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'

  The tone of the lines above is

  Options:
  A) satiric
  B) sarcastic
  C) indicting
  D) self-pitying
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 458:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Theatre-in-the-round'is employed to achieve a

  Options:
  A) quick resolution of conflicts
  B) hilarious ending
  C) contest between the hero and the villan
  D) close rapport between players and spectators.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 459: In his judgement over the elders,Ovonramwen reveals his preference for Options:
  A) diplomacy
  B) intimidation
  C) loyalty
  D) consensus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 460:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her

  Options:
  A) indiscretion
  B) beauty
  C) wit
  D) brawn
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  The correct answer is A .