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 1081:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

  Charles Dickens, Hard Times

  From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) hostile
  C) theoretical
  D) eloguent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1082:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is

  Options:
  A) chaos
  B) hamartia
  C) denouement
  D) reversal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1083:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Most of Tess'misery as a girl-mother comes from the thought of

  Options:
  A) herselfas the parent of a nameless child
  B) the world's concern about her breaking social law
  C) herself as a spouseless mother
  D) her inexperience in childcare
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1084:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'When our Dead come with their Dead

  When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'

  These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to

  Options:
  A) the way in which the dead communicate with us
  B) the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  C) the elders' lack of sophistication
  D) our inability to understand our ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1085: This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesThe moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as Options:
  A) hamartia
  B) anagnorisis
  C) hubris
  D) anamnesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1086: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1087: In J.P Clarks 'Abiku' the word 'threshold' means Options:
  A) a line separating the living from the dead
  B) a relic of Abiku's previous life
  C) a mark of a healthy stock
  D) the home of the living
  E) the home of the dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1088:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Claudius, though a murderer, is presented as a character

  Options:
  A) who has a superlative administrative style
  B) with a living conscience that torments him
  C) to whom past events have no significance
  D) with an admirable physical appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1089:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  Othello kills himself with a

  Options:
  A) bottle
  B) sword
  C) gun
  D) knife
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1090:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  The poet-persona in Serenade is

  Options:
  A) boastful
  B) arrogant
  C) persuasive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is C .