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 1331:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The ode and the elegy are examples of

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) lyrical poetry
  C) narrative poetry
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1332: Kongi's Harvest Options:
  A) Kongi is a democratic ruler
  B) Kongi is a socialist
  C) Kongi is a dictator
  D) Kongi is a respecter of tradition
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1333:

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

  ''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''

  Achebe's conclusion was that

  Options:
  A) the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
  B) very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
  C) a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
  D) the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1334:

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

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1335:

  'All day long, all along the line

  Through tiny station, each exactly like the last chattering little black girls uncaged from school all day long,...'

  For the girls mentioned here, the hours spent at school means

  Options:
  A) creativity
  B) amusement
  C) relaxation
  D) restriction
  E) freedom.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1336: "Kwarshiorkor", "grave", "ravage", "wreck", "funeral", "piles" and fearful". These words from J.P. Clarks "The Casualties" connote Options:
  A) war
  B) burial
  C) casualty
  D) disaster
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1337: In 'Nuit de Sine,'the word 'dark' in 'listern to our dark blood beat' is used Options:
  A) figuratively
  B) scientifically
  C) literally
  D) imaginatively
  E) culturally
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1338:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

  The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

  Options:
  A) eaten the entire entrails of sheep
  B) eate more than his share of the food
  C) been in a whiteman's office
  D) assisted Meka in getting the medal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1339:

  'Earth has not anything to show more fair.

  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  A sight so touching in its majesty:

  This city now doth, like a garment, wear

  The beauty of the morning'.

  It is suggested in this lines that

  Options:
  A) the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
  B) the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
  C) the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
  D) the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
  E) there is no beauty on earth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1340:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The last major battle in the novel is the battle

  Options:
  A) of the Cowshed
  B) of the Windmill
  C) to oust Mr.Jones
  D) to overthrow Snowball
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  The correct answer is B .