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 121:

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

  The writer's satire is most biting when applied to

  Options:
  A) the Hastings
  B) Mr. Hardcastle
  C) Young Marlow
  D) Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 122: In Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, Nnu Ego is blamed for the misfortunes of her Options:
  A) parents
  B) husband
  C) siblings
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 123: A plot in a literary work is about Options:
  A) character delineation
  B) casual arrangement of events
  C) resolution of conflicts
  D) law of poetic justic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 124:

  'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,

  Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.

  In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for

  Options:
  A) friendliness
  B) insecurity
  C) innocence
  D) fertility
  E) safety.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 125: Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet? Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo
  B) Rosaline rejection of Romeo's love
  C) Juliet's confiding in her nurse
  D) The death of Lady Mountague.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 126:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The word 'image' is associated with

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) mood
  C) tone
  D) abstraction
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 127:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'We have come to the crossroads

  And I must either leave or come with you

  I lingered over the choice

  But in the darkness of my doubts

  You lifted the lamp of love

  And I saw in your face

  The road that I should take',

  'The Mesh' by Kwesi Brew

  The poem ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) indecision
  B) despair
  C) hope
  D) determination
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 128:

  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 .
• Question 129:

  A poem is said to be good if it________

  Options:
  A) has elevated style
  B) has rhyme and reason
  C) is difficult to understand
  D) has a regular rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 130: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs Options:
  A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
  B) the night before his fishing expedition
  C) in his house
  D) at the end of the book
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  The correct answer is B .