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 681: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Mrs.Joan Durbeyfield is portrayed as Options:
  A) reticent and deeply emotional
  B) strong-willed and boisterous
  C) pretentious and calculating
  D) fastidious and overbearing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 682: 'The Myth of the Bagre' is an example of Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) a narrative poem of initiation
  C) a poem in praise of manly prowess
  D) a poem recited at marriage festivals
  E) a poem sacred to the memory of ancestors
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 683:

  Which one of the following does not relate to the tone in Diop's Vanity?

  Options:
  A) Sarcasm
  B) Condemnation
  C) Rejuvenation
  D) Concern
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 684:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  '''It is good for a misfortune like this to happen once in a while,'he said, 'so that we can know the thoughts of our friends and neighbours. Unless the wind blows we do not see the fowl's rump.''

  The 'misfortune' referred to in this extract was the

  Options:
  A) misunderstanding between Akueke and her husand
  B) outrage which Oduche committed against the sacred python
  C) sending away of Ezeulu's sons to worship the whiteman's God
  D) ominous vist of Ezeulu's in-laws to his compound
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 685:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 686:

  A play in which the acts succeed on another without probable or necessary sequence is

  Options:
  A) Episodic
  B) Simple
  C) Linear
  D) Convoluted
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 687:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

  Options:
  A) romanesque
  B) grotesque
  C) picaresque
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 688:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  Old Major ends his speech to the animals with song in order to

  Options:
  A) spur them to action
  B) entertain them
  C) display his ability to sing
  D) teach them how to sing an anthem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 689:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

  Options:
  A) assist in the development of the characters
  B) sustain the reader's interest
  C) reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
  D) slow down the pace of the plot development
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 690:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'On the sand hill her footprints Gleam like a prisoner's chain

  The lines above from Mohan Singh's .

  'A village girl' suggest the girl's

  Options:
  A) firmness of bearing
  B) slow movement
  C) difficult in walking
  D) psychedelic movement
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  The correct answer is C .