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 931:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 932:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A panegyric poem is composed to

  Options:
  A) abuse
  B) condemn
  C) praise
  D) elaborate
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 933: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 934:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Do not thank me,instead, let me ask you a question. Now you have all come here sprawling,vomitting,rubbing tears on one another begging me to do my duty and help you. But what about you yourselves? What have you done to help yourselves?

  Answer. Or is the land at peace?

  Are not people ailing and dying

  Ola Rotimi: The God''s Are Not

  To Blame

  Options:
  A) chieftancy tussel
  B) political unrest
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and war
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 935:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The commissioner, who was also the local magistrate, peered at the two men. He did not go near because fastidiously he too wished to avoid the odour of travel that clung to them. Except for the alpaca jacket which he wore in the office, he was a model of starched and expensive neatness from his lean skull to the gleaming toes of his formal shoes'.

  Alex La Guma, 'Time of the Butcherbird'

  From the italicized lines above, the writer condemns the Commissioner by employing a

  Options:
  A) convenient setting
  B) contemptuous tone
  C) stark metaphor
  D) graphic description
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 936:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  The major thematic preoccupation of her play is

  Options:
  A) the constraintic on parental obligations
  B) the problems of class and English mannerisms
  C) the presentation of a mannerless society
  D) changing the traditional view about English comedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 937:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 938: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 939:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.

  George Orwell: Animal Farm

  Form the passage above, the character being described is

  Options:
  A) enthusiastic
  B) altruistic
  C) cynical
  D) lazy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 940:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  Options:
  A) the relationship between a man and a fish
  B) the vain expectations of man
  C) life on the high seas
  D) a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .