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 11:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  'There be two gentlemen in a post-chaise at the door. They have lost their way upon the forest....The two gentlemen in the excerpt above are

  Options:
  A) Diggory and Saunders
  B) Marlow and Hastings
  C) Marlow and Hardcastle
  D) Diggory and Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 12:

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

  The old man's experience is a lesson in

  Options:
  A) endurance and hardwork
  B) happiness and reliance
  C) indolence and regret
  D) achievement and celebration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 13: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as Options:
  A) dramatic epilogue
  B) dramatic monologue
  C) role-playing
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 14: Travelogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwright
  B) before the death of the author
  C) by an unpopular novelist
  D) on a journey
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 15:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

  W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) cbba cdda
  B) bbac ddac
  C) ddca bbca
  D) abbc addc
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 16: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through Options:
  A) the complaints of Biddy
  B) the pretensions of Pumblechook
  C) his rejection by Estella
  D) the death of his sister
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 17:

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

  The overthrow of Jones happens sooner than expected because the animals

  Options:
  A) experience acute suffering
  B) are milked by Jones
  C) are better schemers
  D) receive assistance from Foxwood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 18: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 19:

  In Lenrie's 'The Panic of Growing Older', another significant theme therein is on the___________

  Options:
  A) fear of natural disasters
  B) uncertainties of life
  C) futility of war
  D) essence of mankind and nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 20: This question is based on General literacy principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is Options:
  A) parallelism
  B) assonance
  C) alliteration
  D) pun
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  The correct answer is A .