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 591: 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 592: This question is based on Faceless by Amma DarkoWhat is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home? Options:
  A) she chose to go to the street
  B) her mother remarried
  C) she steals her mother things
  D) she wants to poison her boyfriend
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 593:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 594:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is

  Options:
  A) an omniscient narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) a scond person narrator
  D) a tird person narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 595:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The theme of chance is graphically demonstrated by the

  Options:
  A) meeting of Parson Tringham and Mr Durbeyfield
  B) rape scene
  C) sudden return of Angel Clare from Brazil
  D) death of Tess'child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 596: This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
  The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to Options:
  A) disillusionment
  B) greed and avarice
  C) love and affection
  D) selfishness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 597:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  In their flight, the women settle at lyara in order to

  Options:
  A) forestall reconciliation
  B) seek peace
  C) cure cross-piece
  D) hurt their husbands
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 598:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  CHUME: Who said you were? Does the prophet live here?

  SAME MAN: Yes. Over there. That house

  CHUME: So...so..so...s...

  Chume's reaction in the exchange above reflects

  Options:
  A) disappointment
  B) rumination
  C) contemplation
  D) awareness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 599:

  'Have you got any hands today?

  'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

  'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

  'No thank you'.

  In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

  Options:
  A) syncedoche
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 600: When Di says of Eliza, 'That girl is tragedy already' she means Options:
  A) Eliza faces the threat of premature death
  B) Eliza is a pathetic victim of culture conflict
  C) Eliza is the tragic heroine of the novel
  D) Eliza will not survive her illness
  E) Eliza is suffering fron an undiagnosed diseases.
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  The correct answer is B .