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.

  Flash back in a literary work help to

  Options:
  A) fill the missing link
  B) reveal the characters'mindsets
  C) place the story in proper perspective
  D) relate events that are extraneous to the story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1332:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1333: In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his Options:
  A) hope that African will triumph over colonialism
  B) hatred of Africans
  C) affections of the colonial masters
  D) love of forced romances
  E) hatred of women.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1334: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1335:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses

  The tone of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) interrogative
  C) persuasive
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1336:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a writer refers to past events to throw light on current ones he is employing

  Options:
  A) retrospection
  B) flashback
  C) historical drama
  D) dramatic shift
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1337:

  "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

  Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

  And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Apothecary
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Lord Montague
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1338: 'The Tiger of William Blake is made up of a series of Options:
  A) analogies
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) apostrophes
  D) exaggerations
  E) similes.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1339:

  We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.

  In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

  Options:
  A) Obierika
  B) Okoli
  C) Odukwe
  D) Okonkwo
  E) Ezenwa.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1340:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An address to a metaphysical source of inspiration by a poet is called

  Options:
  A) clairvoyance
  B) inspiration
  C) invocation
  D) nemesis
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  The correct answer is C .