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 1731:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1732:

  A poem is said to be good if it________

  Options:
  A) has elevated style
  B) has rhyme and reason
  C) is difficult to understand
  D) has a regular rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1733:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1734: The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show Options:
  A) the advantages of formal education
  B) the advantages of simplicity, sincerity and true love
  C) the advantages of of sophisticated high-class living
  D) the difference between urban and rural people
  E) that constrast is an inevitable aspect of characterization in a novel.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1735:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ibadan,

  Running splash of rust

  And gold - flung and scattered

  Among seven hills like broken

  China in the sun.'

  J.P Clark, 'Ibadan'

  The poem above is memorable for its

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) heroism
  C) metaphor
  D) lyricism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1736: A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called Options:
  A) a soliloquy
  B) a tragi-comedy
  C) an epic
  D) an epigram.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1737: In the poem, 'The Cathedral', Kofi Awoonor expressed Options:
  A) sorrow at the disappearance of his village
  B) his feeling about traditional religion
  C) disapproval of the change from Africa's past life to the present modern
  D) anger at life slavery and colonialism
  E) his approval for the building of a cathedral in his village
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1738: When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means Options:
  A) Eliza faces the threat of premature death
  B) Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
  C) Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
  D) Eliza will not survive her illness
  E) Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1739:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1740: ''His mouth was such a post-office of a month that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling''.This description in Great expectations refers to Options:
  A) Mr. Punblechoo
  B) Mr. Wemmick
  C) Mr. Drummle.
  D) Mr. Brown
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  The correct answer is B .