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 601: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes Options:
  A) an object of religious worship
  B) the poet's mother
  C) the poet's cultural traditions
  D) a river in the poet's village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 602: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The physical,historical or cultural background of a literary work is referred to as Options:
  A) plot
  B) time
  C) setting
  D) episode
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 603: 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 .
• Question 604:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  '...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'

  What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

  Options:
  A) Tony is in reality without a fortune
  B) Tony is not a man of consequence
  C) Marlow is too bashful and reserved
  D) Tony has not had a good breeding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 605:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

  The platter wears away with serving food.

  No log retains its bark when old,

  No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.The theme of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) non-peaceful nature of love
  B) diminishing nature of love
  C) permanence of love
  D) decaying nature of wood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 606:

  A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......

  Options:
  A) a satire
  B) a masque
  C) a fable
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 607:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

  Options:
  A) his recent advances towards her
  B) the betrayal of her father's trust
  C) the betrayal of his wife's trust
  D) his condemnation of her choice of career
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 608:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 609: Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because Options:
  A) he was hungry
  B) he was greedy
  C) he was afraid
  D) he thought they were wild
  E) they refuse to give him food.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 610:

  At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.

  The setting is best described as

  Options:
  A) bracing
  B) dismal
  C) exhilarating
  D) delightful
  E) pleasant.
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  The correct answer is B .