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 201: The combined reactions of the plebeians after the separate speeches of Brutus and Antony show that the common man as portrayed in Julius Caesar Options:
  A) is knowledgeable, has a mind of his own, and is reable
  B) is fickle-minded, changeable and not dependable
  C) consider Caesar a tyrant and wants him killed
  D) does not consider Caesar an over- ambitious man deserving death
  E) is actually unconcerned whether Caesar dies or lives
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 202:

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

  One of the universal themes of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) selfishness of man against his own enviroment
  B) relationship between man and nature
  C) great struggle between the old man and the fish
  D) connection of the sea to human greed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 203: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.The theme of the poem Give me The Minstrel's seat centres on Options:
  A) fortune
  B) marriage
  C) companionship
  D) divorce
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 204:

  We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us.

  In the above sentence taken from Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the pronoun he refers to

  Options:
  A) Obierika
  B) Okoli
  C) Odukwe
  D) Okonkwo
  E) Ezenwa.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 205:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  The main distinguishing feature of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) tells untrue stories
  B) is relevant to life
  C) deals with exciting and memorable events
  D) presents fictional accounts of human experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 206: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 207: Kongi's harvest is Options:
  A) a political drama
  B) social comedy
  C) a play about natural rulers
  D) a historical tragedy
  E) a domestic comedy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The destruction of the conch along with Piggy's death in the novel suggests

  Options:
  A) degeneration into chaos
  B) the loss of an exquisitely beautiful thing
  C) that Ralph cannot summon a meeting anymore
  D) Jack's victory over Ralph
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 209:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 210: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as Options:
  A) characterization
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) paralellism
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  The correct answer is B .