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 General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'

  Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

  The style of writing in the passage can be described as

  Options:
  A) introspective
  B) confused
  C) confrontational
  D) passive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 122: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe plot of a story generally refers to the Options:
  A) intrigue made by a character against the hero
  B) way in which the events of the story are organized
  C) way in which the writer begin the story
  D) way the writer ends the story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 123: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe the tenets of the party, Winston is subjected to all forms of torture and inhuman treatment by Options:
  A) O'Brien
  B) thought police
  C) Big Brother
  D) Goldstein
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 124:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'

  Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

  The dog in the passage

  Options:
  A) followed his master about
  B) ran after his master's fish
  C) caught the fish between the legs
  D) watched as his master ate the fish
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 125:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

  The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

  Options:
  A) eaten the entire entrails of sheep
  B) eate more than his share of the food
  C) been in a whiteman's office
  D) assisted Meka in getting the medal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 126:

  "Thou loosest labour

  As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air

  With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that

  Options:
  A) the air cannot be cut
  B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
  C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
  D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 127:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) love
  C) sadness
  D) scorn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 128: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The major reason for Juliet's grief is Options:
  A) the death of her cousin
  B) her reluctant marriage to the County
  C) the banishment of her lover
  D) her imminent death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 129:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God.

  The lesson which emerges from the fate of Ezeulu is that

  Options:
  A) the will of the priest is the will of his god
  B) Christianity is superior to traditional religion
  C) no man ever won judgement against his clan
  D) Captain Winterbottom was right afterall
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 130:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .