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 161: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
  Options:
  A) double standard
  B) concept of love
  C) ideas about women
  D) celebration of industrialization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 162:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

  E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

  In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

  Options:
  A) cannibalism
  B) monstrosity
  C) evil
  D) doom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

  Iyase's entreaty comes when

  Options:
  A) the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  B) the whitemen attack Benin
  C) Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  D) Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 164:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

  The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

  But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.

  Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  Options:
  A) Koomson
  B) Oyo
  C) The man
  D) Teacher
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 165:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  The novel is set after which major war?

  Options:
  A) First World War (1914-1918)
  B) Aba Women Riot (1929)
  C) Second World War (1939-1945)
  D) The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 166:

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

  One of the universal themes of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) selfishness of man against his own enviroment
  B) relationship between man and nature
  C) great struggle between the old man and the fish
  D) connection of the sea to human greed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 167:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play isbased on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mellow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 168: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of Options:
  A) an implacable destructive force
  B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
  C) a welcome and benevolent force
  D) a sinister and ominous force.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 169:

  Adeoti's "Ambush" ends on a note of___________

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) bright aspirations
  C) courage
  D) uncertainty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 170:

  'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
  Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
  Did I go to college?
  Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

  The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) parallelism
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .