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 51: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Why blame her who denies love for the asking And not the Birds and Moths and Beetles That after deep draughts from rich nector wells Flee tha drained petals to virgin flowers
  The sound device used in the extract above is Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 52:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Which of these features give the novel an African setting ?

  Options:
  A) Marabouts, spirits and family life
  B) Family life, death and marabouts
  C) Blacksmiths, spirits and magicians
  D) Spirits, magicians and death
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 53: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  Winston Smith begins his rebellion against the power of the state by Options:
  A) purchasing arms
  B) keeping a private diary
  C) opposing the law
  D) educating the youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 54:

  These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

  The novel draws a picture of

  Options:
  A) a useless past
  B) an unstable moment
  C) a peaceful atmosphere
  D) a totalitarian future
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 55:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.

  He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.

  Meridian by Alice Walker

  The person described in the passage is

  Options:
  A) a lackadaisical person
  B) unsaver
  C) uninteresting
  D) a finicky individual
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 56:

  The sides of a stage are called

  Options:
  A) both sides
  B) the ways
  C) the wings
  D) the pits
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 57: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A dirge is a Options:
  A) romantic poem
  B) poem on nature
  C) poem of expectations
  D) poem of lament
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 58:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The physical setting within which the action of a narrative takes place is the

  Options:
  A) stage
  B) scene
  C) locale
  D) location
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 59:

  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.

  The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

  Options:
  A) education and love
  B) fascination and fear
  C) anger and hospitability
  D) protest and regret
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 60:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

  George Eliot, Silas Marner

  In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

  Options:
  A) kind and generous friend
  B) father to everyone in the community
  C) miserly and ungracious ruler
  D) quick tempered and adamant man
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  The correct answer is D .