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 971:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

  The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

  The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

  These are

  Options:
  A) watchfulness and awareness
  B) sensitiveness and arrogance
  C) patience and caution
  D) caution and justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 972:

  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 973:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  Options:
  A) is an accomplished lady
  B) is from a very god family
  C) understands farm life
  D) is a good Christian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 974:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 975: Soyinka's main concern in The Trials of Brother Jero is to Options:
  A) expose the corrupt politicians in the society
  B) expose the religious charlatans in the society
  C) expose women power to seduction
  D) coderm men who beat their wives
  E) show the significant of religion in our lives.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 976:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  Who was the first-person Alison informed about her pregnancy?

  Options:
  A) her parents
  B) Jimmy
  C) Helena
  D) Cliff
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 977: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'Tonderal was assisted by the villagers in placing his trunck box into the back of the car and he got into the passenger side of the truck. Initially, he was a bit nervous and clearly uncomfortable. His young mind was asking how someone whom, he had almost caused a serious accident could be his benefactor.'
  Daniel T.Manyika: Two World Apart
  The narrative point of view used in the extract above can best be described as Options:
  A) omniscient
  B) subjective
  C) panoramic
  D) scenic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 978:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The poet's mood in Gabriel Okara's 'The Fisherman's invocation' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) anxiety
  C) contentment
  D) self-doubt
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 979:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

  Options:
  A) fable
  B) personification
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 980: Characterization in a novel means the Options:
  A) list of characters featuring in it
  B) mode of presenting the fictional individuals
  C) peculiar mannerisms of the narrator
  D) resolution of the conflict between the characters.
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  The correct answer is B .