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 1101: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1102:

  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.

  Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is

  Options:
  A) a pious appeal to God
  B) about the permanence of apartheid
  C) concerned with laundry
  D) about slave labour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1103:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1104: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) tetrametre
  C) assonance
  D) caesura
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1105: What distinguishes poetry from other forms of literature is its Options:
  A) emotion and feeling
  B) ungrammatical expressions
  C) irony and paradox
  D) rhyme and verse
  E) rhyme and metaphor.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1106: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play? Options:
  A) It is not good to be over -ambitious
  B) A determined wife is a curse to the husband
  C) Power is sweet but always over-used
  D) Every evil is punishable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1107:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  'I'll do my best
  To woo your lady.'
  What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?

  Options:
  A) That she succeeds in winning the love for the master
  B) That her best is good enough to win affection
  C) That she herself becomes the beloved
  D) That she herself wins the love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1108:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) hero
  B) opposition
  C) villain
  D) heroine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1109:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

  Options:
  A) Wuthering Heights
  B) The nearby village
  C) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
  D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1110:

  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 .