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 1661:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

  Options:
  A) death and disappointment
  B) appearance and reality
  C) life and disappointment
  D) love and death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1662:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

  The platter wears away with serving food.

  No log retains its bark when old,

  No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.The theme of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) non-peaceful nature of love
  B) diminishing nature of love
  C) permanence of love
  D) decaying nature of wood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1663: Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate Options:
  A) his longing for death
  B) the child's inability to understand
  C) his yearning for his parents
  D) his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1664:

  'To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
  And eternity in an hour'
  - William Blake
  To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
  The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) paradox
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1665:

  Read the extract below and answer this question.

  But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the above extract is

  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) house movement
  C) sea waves
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1666:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

  Options:
  A) fable
  B) personification
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1667: In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by Options:
  A) usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  B) deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  C) divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  D) leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1668:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationThat age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer, But being spent, the worse, and worst Time still succeed the former.

  The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) abba
  D) bbaa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1669: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Emir Lawrence's is not delivered;
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybalt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1670:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is

  Options:
  A) Napoleon
  B) Snowball
  C) Old Major
  D) Squealer
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  The correct answer is C .