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 1121:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.;....I am in blood

  Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.

  Who spoke these words?

  Options:
  A) Lady Macbeth
  B) The fiest murderer
  C) Macbeth
  D) THE SECOND NURDERER
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1122:

  This question is based on LOOK BACK IN ANGER.
  What were the other businesses Jimmy porter had tried apart from the sweet stall business?

  Options:
  A) farming, teaching and advertising
  B) Teaching, painting and trumpeting
  C) Journalism, faming and teaching.
  D) Journalism, advertising, and vacuum cleaning
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1123:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  ...I am the twinkle of a Jewel

  But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'

  These lines suggest that

  Options:
  A) Sidi is superior to the Bale
  B) Sidi is weaker than the Bale
  C) Sidi is clever than the Bale
  D) the Bale is violent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1124: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1125:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must

  Options:
  A) be sung to a musical instrument
  B) be sung by the poet who composes it
  C) express the poet's subjective emotions
  D) be simple and successful.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1126:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationDon't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset... try to regain you exposure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) uncertain
  B) afraid
  C) confidant
  D) hopeless
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1127: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
  Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
  The writer of the above passage is Options:
  A) jealous of rich and influential people
  B) overwhelmed by the power of money
  C) contemptuous of the poor
  D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1128: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The main aim of of caricature is to Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasize
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1129: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
  Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life? Options:
  A) major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1130:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .