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 1661: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  One thing that Angel Clare hates most is Options:
  A) the nation of old family
  B) marrying a girl of her parents'choice
  C) Cambridge education
  D) becoming a minister
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1662:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

  Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

  The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  Options:
  A) envy
  B) suspicion
  C) contempt
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1663:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  ''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

  At Sunset

  The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

  The sail on the sea

  Writes in geometry of spume

  - departure of he who remains

  And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

  -journey of he who never left!''

  Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) litotes
  C) hyperbole
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1664:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1665:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Allegory is used to describe a work in which

  Options:
  A) humans are transposed into animals
  B) both animals and humans swap roles
  C) animals are given human characters
  D) abstract ideas are personified
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1666:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1667:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The novel is a mixture of

  Options:
  A) fiction and fantasy
  B) the objective and the absurd
  C) pessimism and optimism
  D) the real and the supermatural
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1668:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'James started showing interest in Buchi a long time ago. In playing the hunter, he realised that he needed a bait.

  This turned out to be his frequent offer of assistance to the needy young woman. But Buchi has proved to be a difficult game.

  The more James trailed her the more he realised that she could not be easily caught.'The choice of words in the passage above is remarkable because it is

  Options:
  A) largely confusing
  B) very difficult
  C) quite appropriate
  D) drawn from hunting
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1669: "If you touch me, I shall smash your face with this bottle"Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters, the issue at stake is that Options:
  A) Maanan is trying to compromise
  B) Lawyer B is trying to kiss Maanan
  C) James sees Awere as a bad influence
  D) Mrs Bonu is taunting Maanan for loving her husband
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1670:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  The poet-persona in Serenade is

  Options:
  A) boastful
  B) arrogant
  C) persuasive
  D) deceptive
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  The correct answer is C .