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 1191:

  'If i could have put u in my heart,

  If but i could have wrapped you in myself

  How glad i should have been!

  And now the chart

  Of memory unrolls again to me

  The course of our journey here, here where we part....'

  An appropriate title for these lines is.....

  Options:
  A) The end
  B) a lover's Hope
  C) Joy's of being in love
  D) The journey of life
  E) Glad lover
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1192:

  These questions are based on Literary Appreciation'That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his clothe to a tree branch and hanged himself.

  Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart.

  The mood conveyed in the excerpt above is one of

  Options:
  A) frustration
  B) sympathy
  C) dilemma
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1193: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author's perception of real change in the novel? Options:
  A) A change of government
  B) A change of rulers
  C) The elimination of opponents
  D) The transformation of society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1194:

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

  Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

  Options:
  A) Susan Henchard's sale
  B) The return of susan Henchard
  C) The skimmity-ride
  D) The disclosure of Elizabeth-Jane's identity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1195:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1196: Dramatic irony entails Options:
  A) a statement that means more than is evident to its maker
  B) a hilarious statement
  C) satirical comment
  D) a sarcastic announcement
  E) praise of the audience.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1197: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A play is called a comedy when Options:
  A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
  B) nobody dies in it
  C) there is no serious quarrel in it
  D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1198:

  "If

  A provoked houseboy

  Cannot match his

  Wicked master

  Strength with strength,

  He maims the master's favorite

  Goat!"Obaruduagbon employs this proverb to explain why

  Options:
  A) the Oba should be placated
  B) he and Esasoyen were arrested
  C) Uwangue Egiebo was murdered
  D) he was rude to the Oba
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1199:

  In Mission to Kala When Medza encounters Edima,

  What strikes him about her is her

  Options:
  A) ability to speak well
  B) confidence in her self
  C) slender figure
  D) aggressiveness
  E) childlike innicence
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1200:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .