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:

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

  Characterization in the novel is designed to show that man's fate is determined by

  Options:
  A) his character
  B) forces beyond him
  C) his social background
  D) his community
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 212:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 213:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  The poetic device in the expression "Rage is chief" is ___

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 214: One of themes of As You Like It Is Options:
  A) life in the forest
  B) wrestling matches
  C) disguise
  D) the meaning of true love
  E) banishment.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 215:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'Your no-good pig, and here I am feeding him everyday letting him sleep in my house. I got a knife from the kitchen. I am going to kill that pig.'

  Patricia Melo:The Killer

  The speaker in the excerpt above is trying to

  Options:
  A) brace himself up for the action
  B) report the pig before killing it
  C) contemplate the killing of the pig
  D) justify the action of killing the pig
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 216:

  When a writer deviates from the chronological arrangement of events in a literary piece, he uses ...

  Options:
  A) Anadiplosis
  B) Anachrony
  C) Chrestomathy
  D) Anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 217: Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called Options:
  A) dialetic
  B) decadent
  C) definitive
  D) didactic.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 218:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the cold hands of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?

  Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'

  These two stanzas capture the

  Options:
  A) fear of death
  B) ugliness of death
  C) mystery of death
  D) knowledge of death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 219:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 220:

  Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) trance
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) labyrinth
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  The correct answer is A .