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 1451:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The immediate consequence of the publication of Sidi's pictures is to make her

  Options:
  A) want to marry the photographer
  B) feel more important than Baroka
  C) want to go to the city
  D) appreciate Lakunle's learning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1452: The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of Options:
  A) love and beauty
  B) youth and joy
  C) death and burial
  D) the sweetness of wooling
  E) the richness of a man's memory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1453:

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

  Mrs. Hardcastle is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a potential aristocrat
  B) an obedient wife
  C) a frustrated mother
  D) highly unsociable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1454:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1455: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Satirical writing employs Options:
  A) synechdoche
  B) irony
  C) onomatipoeia
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1456: Tone and mood of a poem refers to Options:
  A) locale
  B) atmosphere
  C) setting
  D) space
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1457: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, the gods are portrayed as Options:
  A) saviours of mankind
  B) helpless
  C) architects of man's destiny
  D) amorous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1458: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1459:

  "But everything does have a beginning, and so if I

  Am to tell this story I must begin. Yet i do not know

  The starting point of my tale."Based on Nawal El Saadaw's The Circling Song,the speaker of the above statement is the

  Options:
  A) first person narrator
  B) protagonist
  C) antagonist
  D) omniscient narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1460: "Keats" "Ode" to a Nightingale" can best be described as Options:
  A) an appreciation of nature
  B) an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
  C) a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
  D) a description of nature
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  The correct answer is C .