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 231:

  'There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,

  The earth and every common sight

  To me did seem

  Appareled in celestial light

  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  It is not now as it hath been of yore:

  Turn wheresoever i may,

  By night or day

  The things which have seen i now can see no more.'

  The mood captured in this passage is one of

  Options:
  A) nostalgia
  B) despair
  C) confidence
  D) hope
  E) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 232:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'BEHOLD her, single in the field,

  Yon solitary Highland Lass!

  Reaping and singing by herself;

  Stop here, or gently pass!

  Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,

  And sings a melancholy strain;

  O listen! for the Vale profound

  Is overflowing with the sound.'

  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is

  Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) abcabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 233:

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the important tales of heroes of the past era
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 234: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A play is called a comedy when Options:
  A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
  B) nobody dies in it
  C) there is no serious quarrel in it
  D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 235: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The account of an experiences of an individuals during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an autobiography
  B) a catalogue
  C) a memoir
  D) a travelogue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 236: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Why did Nnaife blame Nnu Ego for all his problems Options:
  A) Because his daughter slapped him
  B) Because his daughter disobeyed him by travelling to abroad
  C) Because his daughter disobeyed him by moving with prostitutes
  D) Because his daughter ran away with a Yoruba man.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 237:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

  Options:
  A) stage direction
  B) dramatic irony
  C) setting
  D) improvisation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 238: Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando Options:
  A) defeacted charles in wrestling contest
  B) was in love with Rosalind
  C) was preferred by the people to himself
  D) was more educated than himself
  E) ran away from home
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 239:

  'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.

  'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'

  'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is

  Options:
  A) love
  B) sympathetic understanding
  C) contempt
  D) respect
  E) difference.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 240:

  "I hate brave cowards like you" is an example of

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) Antithesis
  C) Eulogy
  D) Oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .