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 1171:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1172: This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
  The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to Options:
  A) disillusionment
  B) greed and avarice
  C) love and affection
  D) selfishness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1173: Which of the following characters was assassinated by an unknown assailant in 'Mine Boy' Options:
  A) Daddy
  B) Ma plank
  C) Dladla
  D) chris
  E) Johannes
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1174:

  'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) pun
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1175:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

  You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Mawdo
  B) her mother-in-law
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Tamsir
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1176:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

  E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

  In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

  Options:
  A) cannibalism
  B) monstrosity
  C) evil
  D) doom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1177:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  What basic character traits are revealed by Bluntschli's description of himself as 'a free citizen' and Raina's reference to him as 'my chocolate cream soldier?

  Options:
  A) Affection and tale-bearing
  B) Facetiousness
  C) Simplicity and naturalness
  D) Obduracy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1178: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.A plot structure that defies chronology can be described as Options:
  A) circular
  B) episodic
  C) orgaanic
  D) open-ended
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1179:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

  Options:
  A) audiences
  B) speeches
  C) actions
  D) characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1180:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  The mood of the writer is that of _____?

  Options:
  A) Elation
  B) Sarcasm
  C) Sorrow
  D) Anxiety
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  The correct answer is A .