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 141: A play is a Tragedy when Options:
  A) the autor presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main chracter dies before the play ends
  C) there is much blood shed in the play
  D) the main character is a wicked person
  E) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 142: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 143: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionThe Two dominant themes of the play are Options:
  A) honesty and decency
  B) immorality and greed
  C) poverty and education
  D) weeding and planting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 144:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. 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: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Let me ask for what reason or rhyme

  Women refuse to marry?

  Woman cannot exist except by man,

  What is there in that to vex some of them so?The lines above from Give Me The Minstrel's Seat is an example of

  Options:
  A) ironical statement
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pathetic fallacy
  D) chiasmus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 145: From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in Options:
  A) ancient times
  B) a hut in a riverine village
  C) a modern city by the sea
  D) the only mansion in the village.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 146: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 147:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

  Options:
  A) defiance and protest
  B) arrogance and complacency
  C) nonchalance and pride
  D) violence and aggression
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 148: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to Options:
  A) his beloved country for which he yearns
  B) his love
  C) his love interfused with yearning for his country
  D) a not easily discernible subject.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 149:

  This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

  "fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) consonance
  C) assonance
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 150:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The ode and the elegy are examples of

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) lyrical poetry
  C) narrative poetry
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is B .