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 351: In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was Options:
  A) a sense of disillusionment
  B) a feeling of utter shame
  C) anger of disgust
  D) one of excitement.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 352: The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres Options:
  A) non-fiction
  B) prose fiction
  C) poetry
  D) drama
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 353:

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

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 354:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 355: Point out the odd term Options:
  A) Enjambment
  B) Rhyme
  C) Alliteration
  D) Assonance
  E) plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 356:
  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 .
• Question 357:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'You just wait, I'll tell you more

  But let me first sell my tomatoes'.

  These two lines from Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka'

  Reveal the poet's true state of

  Options:
  A) delight
  B) reality
  C) fear
  D) dream
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 358: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, the gods are portrayed as Options:
  A) saviours of mankind
  B) helpless
  C) architects of man's destiny
  D) amorous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 359: Chaucer presents The Franklin as Options:
  A) a great noble man
  B) a devout christain
  C) an apicurian in taste
  D) a jovial character
  E) an ambitious man
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 360:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .