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 771:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  Options:
  A) is an accomplished lady
  B) is from a very god family
  C) understands farm life
  D) is a good Christian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 772: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.The novel is mainly classified as a Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) satire
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 773:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 774: Plays are basically meant to be Options:
  A) presented on stage
  B) presented in the aircraft
  C) presented in an office
  D) presented in the hospital
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 775: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In literary work, verbal irony refers to a Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the trend of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a logical or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 776:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

  The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

  Options:
  A) eaten the entire entrails of sheep
  B) eate more than his share of the food
  C) been in a whiteman's office
  D) assisted Meka in getting the medal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 777: In a play denouement is the Options:
  A) entry of the central character
  B) development of the central conflict
  C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
  D) climatic point in the development of the plot
  E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 778: The use of sound pattern to suggest meaning in poetry is Options:
  A) lyric
  B) lullaby
  C) mimic
  D) rhythm
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 779:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: 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 in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 780: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is Options:
  A) geisha
  B) shark
  C) iris
  D) marlin
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  The correct answer is D .