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 221:

  'Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died by coccidiosis.'

  In the passage taken from Animal Farm, the truth is that the

  Options:
  A) cause of the hens' death is unknown
  B) official explanation given is unacceptable
  C) issue is not worth considering
  D) official explanation is acceptable
  E) hens died of old-age.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 222: Kongi wants to eat the New Yam during the harvest Festival because Options:
  A) he was very hungry after his period of fasting
  B) the Yam won the agriculture contest
  C) it belonged to the Royal House
  D) it symbolized the acqusition of Power
  E) he wanted to reconcile with Oba Danlola
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 223: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to Options:
  A) describe a place
  B) preach a sermon
  C) tell a story
  D) summarize a story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 224:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A body of imaginative men and women of letters is generally referred to as

  Options:
  A) litterateur
  B) laureattes
  C) literaria
  D) literati
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 225:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a

  Options:
  A) set each for the upper and lower classes
  B) different set for each Act
  C) variety of sets to suit the subject matter
  D) single set in the whole play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 226: Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the Options:
  A) rise to fame of the central character
  B) success of the hero or heroine
  C) reward of the hero
  D) sudden change in the fate of the central character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 227:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  "Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew No more of

  Options:
  A) Travelling
  B) Sick
  C) Dying
  D) Eloping
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 228:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 229: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are Options:
  A) anapestic
  B) trochaic
  C) spondaic
  D) dactylic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 230: What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his Options:
  A) smart apearance
  B) difference
  C) gift of microscope
  D) lovely tea parties
  E) inexhaustible knowledge.
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  The correct answer is E .