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 81: 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 82:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  For her act of child neglect, Adah's mother was forced by the police to

  Options:
  A) taste raw and black pepper
  B) sleep in solitary cell
  C) drink a bowl of garri
  D) pay a fine of ten shillings
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 83:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) the account of the travails of a character in novle
  B) a record of the writer's experiences during a journey
  C) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
  D) the account of the experiences of an indiviual during his lifetime
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 84:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Which of the following are literary genres?

  Options:
  A) Poetry, farce and faction
  B) Fiction, poetry and drama
  C) Drama, faction and biography
  D) Poetry , orthography and fiction.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 85: The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as Options:
  A) disdainful
  B) suspicious
  C) disrespectful
  D) courteous.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 86:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You amble on

  We can no longer

  Wait for nature's course

  We must deliver

  You

  With

  Force'

  Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87:

  '...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,

  Sir, it provokes:it provokes the

  Desire, but it takes away the performance.'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

  Options:
  A) equivocation
  B) allusion
  C) paradox
  D) monologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 88:

  We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,

  But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,

  With an alien people clutching their goods.

  I should be glad of another death.

  The author of these lines is

  Options:
  A) W.B. Yeats
  B) Chinua Achebe
  C) Thomas Hardy
  D) T.S. Elliot
  E) E.G. Okara
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 89:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles

  The large space above the proscenium in a theater from which the scene are controlled is called

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) achronism
  C) flies
  D) setting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 90: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Characterization in a novel refers to the Options:
  A) writer's opinion of the characters
  B) way the characters are revealed to the reader
  C) characters and the way they behave
  D) reader's opinion of the characters
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  The correct answer is B .