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 761:

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

  'Come, 'said Donald quietly, 'a man o'your position should ken better, sir!It is tyrannical and no worthy of you.'

  Which of Henchard's actions is tyrannical?

  Options:
  A) He says Donald must not befriend Elizabeth - Jane
  B) He asks Abel Whittle to go to Blackmoor vale half naked
  C) He dismisses Jopp, his former manager
  D) He decides not to marry Lucetta on Susan's return.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 762: The pauper in Richard Ntiru's poem of that title is Options:
  A) hungry,lonely and sad
  B) lonely, dirty but happy
  C) dirty, hungry and terrified
  D) hungry,lonely and diseased
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 763: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as Options:
  A) plot
  B) time
  C) setting
  D) episode
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 764: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The major reason for Juliet's grief is Options:
  A) the death of her cousin
  B) her reluctant marriage to the County
  C) the banishment of her lover
  D) her imminent death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 765:
  From the novel; Kossoh Town Boy

  If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

  Options:
  A) a historical novel
  B) a piece of writing telling us about the Life of its author
  C) a short story
  D) a narrative tale
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 766:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

  Read the excerpt and answer question
  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 767:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) contrast
  C) couplet
  D) diatribe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 768:

  THIS QUESTION IS BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM WOLE SOYINKA (ED) POEMS OF BLACK AFRICA, E.K. SENANU AND T. VINCENT (EDS.) SELECTION OF AFRICAN POETRY AND E.W. PARKER (ED.) A PAGEANT OF LONGER POEMS.The effect of the repetition of the words

  'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  Options:
  A) a mood of bitterness is created
  B) the poet easily reveals his anger
  C) it captures the poet's desperation
  D) it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 769: A plot in a literary work is about Options:
  A) character delineation
  B) casual arrangement of events
  C) resolution of conflicts
  D) law of poetic justic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 770: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as Options:
  A) prologue
  B) epitome
  C) epilogue
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is C .