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 651:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  What notion dominates Oswald Mtshali's 'The washerwoman's Prayer'?

  Options:
  A) Piety
  B) Ageing
  C) Indifference
  D) Inequality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 652:

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

  By allowing Henchard to get drunk and sell off his wife, Hardy makes the point that

  Options:
  A) life is valueless
  B) drinking is disastrous
  C) Henchard is unpredictable
  D) cruelty is part of life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 653:

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

  The story of the play would have been different but for

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
  B) Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
  C) the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
  D) Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 654:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He sprung about the room in thick socks, from fridge to bread bin to table, where he buttered and chopped and sliced and sprinkled. Deft and efficient; lithe like a cat, or a ballet dancer'.

  Georgina Hammick, Habits

  The passage above suggests

  Options:
  A) haste
  B) lack of organization
  C) controlled movement
  D) untidiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 655: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being Options:
  A) obscene
  B) farcical
  C) comic
  D) didactic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 656:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'Idoto' in Okigbo's 'The Passage' is the name of

  Options:
  A) the poet's mother
  B) the poet's village
  C) a village shrine
  D) a village stream
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 657:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The setting in pastoral poetry is usually

  Options:
  A) oceanic
  B) urban
  C) encumenical
  D) idyllic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 658:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 659: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The theme of Cope's Sonnet VII is Options:
  A) art of poetry
  B) adventure
  C) contempt for literature
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 660:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) plot
  B) setting
  C) theme
  D) structure
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  The correct answer is C .