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 1421:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.

  Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'

  The character in the poem above is obviously a

  Options:
  A) veteran
  B) prisoner
  C) mercenary
  D) refugee
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1422:

  "Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"Wole Soyinka: "Night".

  Night children in the stanza above reflectsthe consciousness of__________

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1423:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1424:

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

  The Dorothy of the play is

  Options:
  A) Tony Lumpkin's mother
  B) Young Marlow's mother
  C) Miss Neville's mother
  D) Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1425:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1426: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1427: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.The relationships of Nnaife family are Options:
  A) humiliation and disagreement
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) poverty and hunger
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1428:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1429:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1430:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  '...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

  In the moon-steeped ponds;

  There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

  Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

  Dream suggest that

  Options:
  A) even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  B) nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  C) there is harmony in nature
  D) there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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  The correct answer is B .