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 1801:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

  The noveldraws a picture of______?

  Options:
  A) useless past
  B) a totalitarian future
  C) an unstable moment
  D) a peaceful atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1802:

  Chansonis a term denoting a

  Options:
  A) popular Korean verse
  B) Song from the middle Ages
  C) Form of love song
  D) poem of Varied Metrical forms
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1803:

  'We return to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,

  With an alien people clutching their gods.

  I should be glad to another death'.Which of the following authors chose the title of one of his novels from the above lines?

  Options:
  A) Eddie Iroh
  B) Onuora Nzukwu
  C) Cyprian Ekwensi
  D) Elechi Amadi
  E) Chinua Achebe
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1804: He is a faithful liarThe line above is an example of Options:
  A) epigram
  B) oxymoron
  C) euphemism
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1805: When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using Options:
  A) slapstick
  B) a curse
  C) invective
  D) personification
  E) sacrilege.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1806: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1807:

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

  In the poem 'The Prodigals' the line 'their heads are claimed by clouds' means that the military leaders

  Options:
  A) travel a lot by air
  B) are haughty
  C) love sunny weather
  D) dislike clouds
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1808:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  '...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'

  What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

  Options:
  A) Tony is in reality without a fortune
  B) Tony is not a man of consequence
  C) Marlow is too bashful and reserved
  D) Tony has not had a good breeding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1809:

  'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .

  The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called

  Options:
  A) scansion
  B) enjambment
  C) caesura
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1810:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .