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 491:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is a

  Options:
  A) lamentation over a dead friend
  B) lamentation over the passing of life
  C) reflection on the passing of life
  D) reflection on nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 492:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The message State Express 555 is an advertisement for

  Options:
  A) an imported alcoholicdrink
  B) a brand of elitist cigrette
  C) a newly commissioned road network
  D) Gold Coast Transport Corporation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 493:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...

  Lord of the Files by William Golding

  'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

  Options:
  A) gentle response of the animal being roasted
  B) rudeness of the animal to the hunter
  C) gentle process of roasting on the fire
  D) fropping of the fat of the meat in the fire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 494:

  'All day long, all along the line

  Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

  For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

  Options:
  A) creativity
  B) amusement
  C) relaxation
  D) restriction
  E) freedom.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 495:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles

  The large space above the proscenium in a theater from which the scene are controlled is called

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) achronism
  C) flies
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 496:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The attitude of the narrator to religion in the novel is

  Options:
  A) fundamentalist
  B) liberal
  C) ambiguous
  D) fanatical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 497: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 498:

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

  Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

  Options:
  A) Susan Henchard's sale
  B) The return of susan Henchard
  C) The skimmity-ride
  D) The disclosure of Elizabeth-Jane's identity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 499:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  In Robert Frost's 'Wild Grapes', the girl's brother throws down grapes in the manner he does to

  Options:
  A) make his sister have her fill
  B) allow himself time-in-between to eat
  C) make his sister desire to climb the tree
  D) allow hinself to have some fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 500:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) ballad
  C) tercet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is C .