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 1431:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

  Options:
  A) rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  B) represent the image of African traditionalism
  C) condemn male chauvinism
  D) demonstrate the plight of widowhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1432:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1433:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1434: 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 1435:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

  Options:
  A) Rosencrantz
  B) Yorick
  C) Sexton
  D) Fortinbras
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1436: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.In We must learn Again to Fly; Ofeimum exhorts the reader Options:
  A) not to lose hope in the face of adversity
  B) to enjoy his success
  C) to give up if he does not succeed
  D) to work harder even if he succeeds
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1437: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of Options:
  A) quatrain and imagery
  B) rhyme andsimile
  C) onomatopoeia and alliteration
  D) alliteration and personification
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1438:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1439:

  "Lift not the painted veil which those who live

  Call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,

  And it mimic all we would believe

  With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:SonnetThe stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) sestet
  C) quatrain
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1440: This question is based on General literacy principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is Options:
  A) parallelism
  B) assonance
  C) alliteration
  D) pun
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  The correct answer is A .