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 741:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

  That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) detects discrimination
  B) is desirous of adventure
  C) hates his old wife
  D) knows much of his city men
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 742:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 743:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes

  Options:
  A) the blood thirsty nature of sharks
  B) man's refusal to grow old
  C) man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
  D) the uncertainty of life in a cruel world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 744:

  'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.

  In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

  Options:
  A) Brazilian legend
  B) Greek mythology
  C) French cosmology
  D) American history
  E) African folklore.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 745:

  The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

  Options:
  A) expressed through rhetorical questions
  B) condemnation
  C) expressed through the use of innuendos
  D) concern
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 746: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So throughout life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
  Who is the person whose expected visit is being discussed here? Options:
  A) Abel Magwich
  B) Mr. Wopsle
  C) Mr Punblechook
  D) Joe Gargery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 747:

  'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons

  The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'

  The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

  Options:
  A) redemption from ignorance
  B) violence and oppression
  C) conversion from paganism
  D) the building of beautiful edifices.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 748: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies Options:
  A) unrequired love
  B) mutual love
  C) impossible love
  D) erotic love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 749: The major lesson Pip's experience in Great Expectations teaches us is that Options:
  A) it is not good to be born poor
  B) wealth guarantees happiness
  C) an orphan has to be industrious to survive
  D) education is needed only by the poor
  E) ambition should be moderated by fairness and human consideration for others
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 750: Part of the meaning of Kongi's Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi's final harvest is Options:
  A) a big yam
  B) respect
  C) disaster
  D) honour
  E) fame
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  The correct answer is C .