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 1041:

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

  Susan concealed the true parentage of Elizabeth Jane in order to

  Options:
  A) safeguard her daughter's dignity
  B) avenge Henchard for offending her
  C) escape Henchard's curse
  D) Prevent Newson from claiming his daughter.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1042:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1043: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) digression and rubric
  B) intrigues and metaphors
  C) setting and design
  D) suspense and irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1044:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The strong desire he felt for her fade away. As he had done the previous night, he tried desperately to excite himself mentally. Not a nerve in his body responded. He felt ill. He perspired. He, the stallion who usually flung himself at women, was like pulp.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The terseness of the prose above is employed to

  Options:
  A) capture a climax
  B) depict tension
  C) condemn the man
  D) sympathize with the girl
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1045:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The two major pervasive sources of social problems in the community of the stillborn are

  Options:
  A) ignorance and poverty
  B) modrnization and foreign culture
  C) Christianity and the quest for wealth
  D) witchcraft and Christianity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1046:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

  Options:
  A) They are major figures in the drama
  B) They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
  C) The y were friends of the late Ogundele
  D) Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1047:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'The crisis over the New Yam Feast arose because

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu refused to eat the sacred yams at the appropriate time
  B) the harvest season came too early
  C) the Christians in Umuaro diverted their own yams to their church
  D) Ezeulu's absence from Umuaro had prevented him from eating the sacred yams at the right time
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1048: In the novel The Narrow Parth because Kofi's father was a headmaster, kofi Options:
  A) wore shoe to school
  B) started school early
  C) went to school when he liked
  D) wasn rude to his teachers
  E) was very popular with the school children
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1049: These questions is based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.In the novel the colonialists treat the Africans with Options:
  A) disdain
  B) indifference
  C) honour
  D) kid gloves
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1050:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'Homage to Peregede, the triumphant mother of morning radiant in Chameleon's velvet let today's dawn bring on its rail trains of good tidings.

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Salutation to the gods.

  The excerpt above is an example of

  Options:
  A) invocation
  B) ode
  C) elegy
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .