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 121: This question is based on the Literary Appreciation'' To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower.Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.''William Blake, To Sea a World in a Grain of SandThe predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 122:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Sidi insisted on the payment of her bride-price because it indicates that she_____

  Options:
  A) is a virgin
  B) has a wealthy family
  C) is of marriageable age
  D) is free from her family
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 123:

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

  A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that

  Options:
  A) Farfrae's arrival spells Henchard's doom
  B) they employ each other
  C) they disagree over Abel Whittle
  D) the friendship ends too soon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 124: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.In Nnaife's house, life became miserable to Nnu Ego by the news that Options:
  A) Nnaife's elder brother had died
  B) Nnaife has inherited buildings and properties
  C) Nnaife had lost Ngozi
  D) Nnaife has inherited his brother's wives and children.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 125:

  'Dead leaves blew into the room.

  And alighted upon my bed.

  Ans a tree declared to the gloom

  Its sorrow that they were shed'

  The mood registered in these lines is

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) depression
  C) gaiety
  D) happiness
  E) persimism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 126: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 127:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 128:

  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 129:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart. '

  Golding, Lord of the Flies.

  In the passage above, the conch symbolises

  Options:
  A) bestiality
  B) authority
  C) dictatorship
  D) civilization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 130:

  When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
  I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) protest
  C) rejection
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .