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 491:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

  Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) anecdotes
  C) prologue
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 492:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  The tension generated at Ipaja and Iwuya early in the novel is a result of

  Options:
  A) Prophet Elijah's trance
  B) Badejo's antigraft posture
  C) the campaign for parliamentary election
  D) the increase in cocoa prices
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 493: In As You Like It, the forest of Arden could symbolize Options:
  A) passion
  B) anxiety
  C) goodness
  D) wealth
  E) power
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 494: Wordsworth's 'The World is Too Much With Us' is a Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) epic
  C) couplet
  D) quartrain
  E) tercet.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 495:

  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 phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 496:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

  Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

  Options:
  A) illumination after darkness
  B) an unnecessary evil
  C) a necessary evil
  D) a light provider
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 497: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello."Though I do hate him as I do pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign..."The speaker of the excerpt above can be described as Options:
  A) trusting
  B) a concubine
  C) a schemer
  D) ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 498: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.At the end of Ovonramwen's discussion with Gallway and Hutton, one can conclude that Ovonramwen is Options:
  A) fascinated by their gifts
  B) eager to sign the trade treaty presented
  C) suspicious about their real intentions
  D) ready to welcome them
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 499: The dominant images in Kalu Uka's Earth to Earth are those of Options:
  A) love and beauty
  B) youth and joy
  C) death and burial
  D) the sweetness of wooling
  E) the richness of a man's memory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 500: At mines where Xuma worked, the workers were Options:
  A) satisfied
  B) confused
  C) rebellious
  D) overworked
  E) respected.
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  The correct answer is D .