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 141:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes

  Options:
  A) the blood thirsty nature of sharks
  B) man's refusal to grow old
  C) man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
  D) the uncertainty of life in a cruel world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 143: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a Options:
  A) stanza in poetry
  B) meter in poetry
  C) trope in poetry
  D) verse in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 144: In The Narrow Path Nani is transferred very frequently because he is Options:
  A) a trained teacher
  B) an untrained teacher
  C) a lazy worker
  D) a devoted and hardworking teacher
  E) a poor man's son
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 145: 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 146:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 147: The allusion in Hughe's The Negro Speaks of Rivers is mainly Options:
  A) literacy
  B) bibilical
  C) historical
  D) classical
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 148: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Options:
  A) James agrees that Aaron and Maanan should study what they want
  B) Lawyer B harasses Maanan in his office
  C) Haanah, James' wife convinces him
  D) Aaron and Maanan agree to read the courses James chooses for them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 149: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 150:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, use the excerpt below to answer question 14 and 15.

  '.... So tedious is this day

  As is the night before some festival

  To an important child that hath them.

  New robes and may not wear.

  The literary device used in the excerpt is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) Oxymoron
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .