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 171:

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

  Hardy employs the character of Henchard to propagate the notion of

  Options:
  A) confessing our weaknesses
  B) courageously combating adversity
  C) taking steadfast decisions
  D) accepting inevitable defeat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 172:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 173:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  I have received your letter. By way of a reply, I am beginning this diary, my prop is my distress. Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.

  Mariama Ba, 'So Long a Letter'

  By employing the first person narrator, the author of the passage above achieves

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) confidentiality
  C) authenticity
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 174:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

  I summon up remembrance of things past,...

  Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

  The lines above contain the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) a motif
  B) irony
  C) sarcasm
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 175:

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

  The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  Options:
  A) the relationship between a man and a fish
  B) the vain expectations of man
  C) life on the high seas
  D) a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 176:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...Then, let her take another husband from among her own people. A woman without a man is like rich farm soil without the feel of roots.

  Beautiful woman without a man is a crab-over-protected by shells: selfish...'

  This statement in the play refers to the

  Options:
  A) attack on Benin customs by the whitemen
  B) marital status of Queen Victoria
  C) hatred the Oba has for unmarried white women
  D) Oba's desire to marry Queen Victoria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 177: As non-fiction, V.S Naipaul's The Middle Passage belongs more properly to the genre of Options:
  A) autobiography
  B) sermon
  C) travelogue
  D) epistle
  E) biography.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 178:

  'Folk all fade. And whither.

  As i wait alone where the fair was?

  Into the clammy and numbing night fog

  Whence they entered hither

  Soon one more goes thither!

  In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

  Options:
  A) a night in the poet's life
  B) unpleasant weather conditions
  C) life's problem and misfortunes
  D) the state before birth and after death
  E) darkness after sunset
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 179:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'what time night it is

  I do not know

  Except that like some fish

  Doped out of the deep

  I have bobbed up bellywise'.

  J.P. Clark, 'Night Rain'

  Which of the following figures of speech is employed above ?

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Assonance
  C) Hyperbole
  D) Onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 180:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed bythe director
  B) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
  C) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  D) attacks the character foil
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  The correct answer is C .