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 111:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A necessary quality of every work of literature is that it

  Options:
  A) shows a creative use of language
  B) has to be publishable in order to gain wide acceptance
  C) teaches a moral lesson
  D) characters or actors
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 112: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents Options:
  A) Benvolio is a troublemaker
  B) Benvolio is a cabinet maker
  C) Benvolio is kingmaker
  D) Benvolio is a peacemaker
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 113:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;

  The speaker in the statement above is being

  Options:
  A) symbolical
  B) analogical
  C) metaphorical
  D) parabolical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 114:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The success of the play as a comedy relies on the author's use of

  Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) stock comic characters
  C) comic relief
  D) stage and scenic disguise
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 115: "Since I came to this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the speaker above is Options:
  A) the Catechist
  B) Nua
  C) Nkolo
  D) the Commandant
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 116:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 117: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) ellipsis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 118: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 119:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 120:

  How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .