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 1591:

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

  Angel Clare's ambition in marrying Tess d'Urbervilles is to secure a wife with

  Options:
  A) high social standing
  B) great fortune
  C) rustic innocence
  D) a wide knowledge of the world
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1592:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1593:

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

  '...But there have been

  No new reads cut by his servants

  No new cots woven..'

  It can be inferred from the above lines that

  Options:
  A) there has been no harvest in the village
  B) the Bale's sevants are lazy
  C) no children have been born recently
  D) the Bale's servants are revolting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1594:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The persona in the poem 'To the Soldier Hero' by Mazisi Kunene is portrayed as being

  Options:
  A) blood thirsty
  B) brave
  C) humane
  D) fearful, yet patriotic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1595: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is Options:
  A) pastoral
  B) ballad
  C) romance
  D) epic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1596:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  '...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

  The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's

  Options:
  A) attractiveness
  B) beauty consciousness
  C) gentleness
  D) callousness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1597: Chief-Who-Is-Chief won Anansewa for his wife because he Options:
  A) paid the largest dowry
  B) showed the greatest love for her
  C) bribed property man
  D) was a friend of Anansewa's father
  E) paid her school fees.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1598: Which of the following novels was written by a Nigerian? Options:
  A) The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
  B) Weep Not Child
  C) Mine Boy
  D) A Man Of The People
  E) Mission to Kala.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1599: The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is Options:
  A) Benvolio
  B) Tybalt
  C) Paris
  D) Mercutio
  E) Juliet's nurse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1600: In Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her Options:
  A) parents
  B) husband
  C) siblings
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .