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 621:

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

  The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) insanity
  B) wickedness
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 622:

  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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) love
  C) sadness
  D) scorn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 623:

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

  The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

  Options:
  A) be praised for his action
  B) be alienated by his society
  C) be broken by his society
  D) live a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 624:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

  England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

  The subject matter of the passage above is the

  Options:
  A) uncritical acceptance of European values
  B) woes of English marriage
  C) adventures in England
  D) intransigence of an African wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 625:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  In a narration, the first person is

  Options:
  A) the author
  B) a participant
  C) the publisher
  D) an observer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 626: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 627: A funny incident within a serious situation is Options:
  A) comedy
  B) comic relief
  C) tragic comedy
  D) tragic hero
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 628:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must

  Options:
  A) be sung to a musical instrument
  B) be sung by the poet who composes it
  C) express the poet's subjective emotions
  D) be simple and successful.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 629:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 630:

  A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.

  The passage is referring to a

  Options:
  A) religious preacher who saves sinful souls
  B) physician who cures diseases of the sole
  C) workman who repears shoes
  D) trader who prevents bad sales
  E) trader who cheats customers during sales.
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  The correct answer is C .