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 31:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

  The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

  The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

  These are

  Options:
  A) watchfulness and awareness
  B) sensitiveness and arrogance
  C) patience and caution
  D) caution and justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 32:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, Boxer is respected for his

  Options:
  A) duplicity
  B) reticence
  C) intellect
  D) hard work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 33: The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show Options:
  A) the advantages of formal education
  B) the advantages of simplicity, sincerity and true love
  C) the advantages of of sophisticated high-class living
  D) the difference between urban and rural people
  E) that constrast is an inevitable aspect of characterization in a novel.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 34: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies Options:
  A) unrequired love
  B) mutual love
  C) impossible love
  D) erotic love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  One of the universal themes of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) selfishness of man against his own enviroment
  B) relationship between man and nature
  C) great struggle between the old man and the fish
  D) connection of the sea to human greed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  OBASEKI [from the auditorium]. For the peace of the land, obey him - Benin has had enough trouble!

  [Roupe11 turns, feigning departure.]

  CHIEF EZOMO [ urgently kneels before Ovonramwen]. Pray, my lord, do nothing to provoke him again!

  IYASE [fervently beseeching] . Benin... think of Benin!

  This dialogue became necessary because of Ovonramwem's

  Options:
  A) intention to resume fighting
  B) intransigence in the face of authority
  C) refusal to pay homage to the witeman
  D) unwillingness to befriend the witemen
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 37:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) limerick
  C) tercet
  D) wit
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 38: The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is Options:
  A) Benvolio
  B) Tybalt
  C) Paris
  D) Mercutio
  E) Juliet's nurse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 39:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Fights by the book of arithmetic

  The figure of speech in the line above is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) euphemism
  C) litotes
  D) innuendo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 40:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

  Options:
  A) digression
  B) flashback
  C) regression
  D) reverie
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  The correct answer is A .