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 1541:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A motif is

  Options:
  A) a recurrent image in a work of literature
  B) the reason behind a character's behaviour
  C) a single matrical line
  D) an essay or treatise on a particular subject
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1542:

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

  The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

  Options:
  A) Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
  B) Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
  C) Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1543:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1544:

  _______ is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake

  Options:
  A) Tragic flaw
  B) Hubris
  C) Denouement
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1545: These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.Vandermayer's attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church's Options:
  A) despondency
  B) infuriation
  C) hypocrisy
  D) suspicion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1546:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The object of the extract is____?

  Options:
  A) childishness
  B) the unchanging cycle of nature
  C) the adverse effect of old age
  D) human being
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1547: A couplet is a Options:
  A) succession of three rhyming lines
  B) succession of two rhyming lines
  C) poem of two stanzas
  D) poem of three stanzas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1548: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1549:

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

  '''I wish the boy was here...'''

  The old man's cry demonstrates

  Options:
  A) a desperation for productivity
  B) bitterness
  C) humiliation
  D) a yearning for human brotherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1550: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found Options:
  A) in most kinds of poems
  B) only in free verse
  C) uniquely in blank verse
  D) peculiarly in rhyming couplets
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  The correct answer is A .