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:

  "Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

  Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

  Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

  Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

  People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

  Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

  Options:
  A) more radiant
  B) more colourful
  C) less awkward
  D) less scheming
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 82: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life's spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that Options:
  A) life is full of care
  B) there can't be life without stive
  C) life is worthwhile without care
  D) strive makes life worth living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 83: Choose the option that has the same consonant sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined Vice Options:
  A) cat
  B) dress
  C) show
  D) chalk
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 84: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New ManIn terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as Options:
  A) conformists
  B) liberals
  C) fanatics
  D) puritans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 85:

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

  One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) creation and resolution of conflicts
  B) sale of Henchard's wife
  C) exploration of comic plot
  D) wheat business in Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 86: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The casualties in Launko's End of the War Options:
  A) women
  B) children
  C) men
  D) soldiers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 87: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."We would be believing we dreamt it"The figure of speech in the line above from Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) assonance
  C) antithesis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 88: This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesThe moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as Options:
  A) hamartia
  B) anagnorisis
  C) hubris
  D) anamnesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 89:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

  Jose Saramago: All the Names

  What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) she runs away
  B) she is awake
  C) she falls asleep
  D) she is dead
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 90:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

  Options:
  A) orchard of Macbeth
  B) witches' enclave
  C) forest of Dunsinane
  D) death-place of King Duncan
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  The correct answer is D .