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 131: 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 132:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,

  For it hath cowed my better part of man;

  And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...

  That keep the word of promise to our ear,

  And break it to our hope...'

  The speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
  B) Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
  C) Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
  D) Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 133: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 134: A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept must be a Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortune
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 135:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 136:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  'The earth has stopped breathing and sighed' illustrates__________

  Options:
  A) bathos
  B) paradox
  C) climax
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 137:

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

  The epilogue of the play deals with the

  Options:
  A) impermanence of nature
  B) impermanence of love
  C) impermanence of nature and womanhood
  D) shortness of love and life
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 138:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 139:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A complex plot can be described as the plot structure that has

  Options:
  A) multiple scenes
  B) strands of events runnings concurrently
  C) well-developed characters
  D) an abstract subject and setting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 140:

  "Rather than so, come fate, into the list,

  And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to

  Options:
  A) Macbeth's fear of not being king
  B) Banqou's children becoming kings
  C) Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
  D) Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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  The correct answer is A .