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 191:

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

  The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

  Options:
  A) Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
  B) Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
  C) Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 192: The 'Myth of the Bagre' is recited at the Options:
  A) funeral of young men
  B) funeral of young women
  C) funeral of old men and woman
  D) coming of age of young men and women
  E) return of the ancestors.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 193: The major cause of the tragedy in The Victims is Options:
  A) the African polygamous marriage system
  B) Nwabunor's jealosy
  C) Ogugua's moral laxity
  D) Obunua's irresponsibility
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 194:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.The following epithets:

  'The courageous captain of compliments...

  The very butcher of a silk button...

  A gentleman of the very first house...'

  Refer to

  Options:
  A) Tybalt
  B) Romeo
  C) Mercutio
  D) Benvolio.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 196:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace'' Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.

  The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

  Options:
  A) tolerant
  B) compassionate
  C) prayerful
  D) loving
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 197: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 198: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 199:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The story in the book is told from the point of view of

  Options:
  A) Nwabunor
  B) Obanua
  C) a first person narrator
  D) a third person narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .