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 211:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 212:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the

  Options:
  A) meeting of Parson Tringham and Mr Durbeyfield
  B) rape scene
  C) sudden return of Angel Clare from Brazil
  D) death of Tess'child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 213:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 214:

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

  The real victims are

  Options:
  A) Ndidi and Ogo
  B) Nwanze and Obanua
  C) Ubaka and Bomboy
  D) Nwabunor and Ogugua
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 215: 'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which Options:
  A) defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
  B) explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
  C) refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
  D) emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
  E) highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 216:

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

  The comic in the play is found in the

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot
  B) Miss Hardcastle Marlow main plot two sub-plots
  C) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot and Hasting-Neville sub-plot
  D) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow and Hasting-Neville series of sub-plots
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 217: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A structural arrangement of units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 218:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 219: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Options:
  A) James agrees that Aaron and Maanan should study what they want
  B) Lawyer B harasses Maanan in his office
  C) Haanah, James' wife convinces him
  D) Aaron and Maanan agree to read the courses James chooses for them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 220:
  From the novel; Native Son

  Richard Wright's " Native Son" may be described to a/an_______

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) picaresque
  C) bildungsroman
  D) travelogue
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  The correct answer is C .