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 1011:

  The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

  Options:
  A) expressed through rhetorical questions
  B) condemnation
  C) expressed through the use of innuendos
  D) concern
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1012: The effect of Pip's association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him Options:
  A) realize that he was an orphan
  B) despair of even being a gentle man
  C) aspire to improve his education and make himself less common
  D) love Biddy more ardently.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1013: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1014:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1015:

  These question are 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; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1016: Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:From the play, George is a Options:
  A) laboratory assistant
  B) pharmacist
  C) nurse
  D) medical doctor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1017: This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.
  Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that Options:
  A) destruction is present in almost every action
  B) nature is the sole destructive force
  C) animals are the sole destructive force
  D) birds are the sole destruction force
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1018:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a statement is made on stage to the hearing of only the audience, it is called

  Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) a soliloquy
  C) an aside
  D) a diatribe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1019:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'On the lower deck in the babel of two hundred voices he would forget himself, and beforehand live in his mind the sea life of light literature,.

  Joseph Conrade Lord Jim

  The character in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) talking
  B) sleeping
  C) reading a literature book
  D) day-dreaming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1020:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .