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 791:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'

  Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'

  The tone of the lines above is

  Options:
  A) satiric
  B) sarcastic
  C) indicting
  D) self-pitying
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 792:

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

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 793: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 794:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  Adah's sojourn in London reveals that

  Options:
  A) marriage is an equal partnership between spouses
  B) her marriege improves
  C) Francis is a hardworking man
  D) the plight of the black woman does not change
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 795:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jessie Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer,Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 796:

  'All day long, all along the line

  Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

  For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

  Options:
  A) creativity
  B) amusement
  C) relaxation
  D) restriction
  E) freedom.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 797: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 798:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 799:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 800:

  This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.

  The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

  Options:
  A) Mr. Carrington
  B) O'Brien
  C) Eurasia
  D) Coworker Julius
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  The correct answer is A .