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 691: In Great Expectations. while Pip was going away from home to take the coach in London, Joe and Biddy threw old shoes at him because Options:
  A) Pip had in a haste forgotten to pack those old shoes of his
  B) they wanted to play a practical joke on Pip for the last time
  C) Pip had made them angry by his joy to leave home
  D) they believede that the act would bring him good luck.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 692:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'

  Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

  The dog in the passage

  Options:
  A) followed his master about
  B) ran after his master's fish
  C) caught the fish between the legs
  D) watched as his master ate the fish
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 693:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that

  Options:
  A) Farfrae's arrival spells Henchard's doom
  B) they employ each other
  C) they disagree over Abel Whittle
  D) the friendship ends too soon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 694: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as Options:
  A) harmatia
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) epistasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 695:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'America! there it lay, handy and tantalizing, allheat and scurry. All morning they had kept catching glimpses of it beyond the potholes as they stood in long lines, waiting to reach the tables where the immigration men in dacrion shirts checked their visas, inspected the X-ray pictures of their lungs that they held in their hands, decided whether to admit them or not. Getting into America was, it seemed, quite as hard as getting into heaven; and the trouble was... that as with heaven one couldn't know whether one would like it when one got there'.

  The picture of America presented in this passage is that of a place

  Options:
  A) of unknown and uncertain qualities
  B) choked with red tape
  C) as inviting as heaven itself
  D) off-putting on account of the heat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 696:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Come away, come away, death,

  And in sad cypress let me be laid...

  In the lines above, the character is

  Options:
  A) expressing his unhappiness about death
  B) expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  C) lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  D) wishing for death to come
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 697:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 1 is ________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Alliteration
  C) Litotes
  D) Personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 698:

  'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

  In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

  Options:
  A) sea storms
  B) rain storms
  C) storming raids by the racist police
  D) storms of passion.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 699: There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
  The speaker uses a string of Options:
  A) Metaphors
  B) parables
  C) hyperboles
  D) riddles
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 700:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In their fight, the women settle at Eyara in order to_______?

  Options:
  A) Cure cross-piece
  B) Hurt their husbands
  C) Forestall reconciliation
  D) Seeks peace
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  The correct answer is B .