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 591:

  The bustle in a house

  The morning after death

  Is solemnest of industries

  Enacted upon earth-

  The sweeping up the heart

  And putting love away

  We shall not want to use again

  Until eternity.

  The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

  Options:
  A) misplaced anxiety
  B) great relief
  C) solemn resignation
  D) morbid fear.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 592:

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

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 593:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 594:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, ...'she slapped the Samson and Deliah.'''

  Festus lyayi: Violence

  In the passage above, the speaker can described as

  Options:
  A) domineering
  B) tyreacherous
  C) friendly
  D) hungry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 595:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''...It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.

  We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.''

  In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

  Options:
  A) moderation
  B) bravery
  C) cowardice
  D) sitting on the fence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 596:

  A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) eulogy
  C) premiere
  D) anthology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 597: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 598: Travelogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwright
  B) before the death of the author
  C) by an unpopular novelist
  D) on a journey
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 599:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

  Options:
  A) simultaneously
  B) intermittently
  C) in a single revolution of the sun
  D) within the same locale
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 600: In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was Options:
  A) a sense of disillusionment
  B) a feeling of utter shame
  C) anger of disgust
  D) one of excitement.
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  The correct answer is A .