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 241:

  In Herbert's "The Pulley", God's supremacy is exemplified through______

  Options:
  A) His withholding of the gift of rest
  B) the insatiable nature of man's needs
  C) His unending love for mankind
  D) His blessings of man with many gifts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 242: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  The Ministry of Truth is concerned with Options:
  A) news entertainment, education and fine arts
  B) propaganda, war, publishing and enlightenment
  C) investigation, propaganda and fine arts
  D) economic affairs, education and propaganda
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 243: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 244:

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

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 245: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is Options:
  A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
  B) justly rewarded in the end.
  C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
  D) given national honours in the end
  E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 246:

  ______is a subdivision of a poem?

  Options:
  A) sentence
  B) lines
  C) stanza
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 247: A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an Options:
  A) epithet
  B) epigram
  C) invective
  D) impression
  E) analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 248:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 249: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 250:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's

  'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

  Options:
  A) an enjoyable tour
  B) a difficult journey
  C) a pleasant journey
  D) an uneventful tour
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  The correct answer is D .