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 1771:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1772:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  The use of the word 'salt' in the novel is suggestive of

  Options:
  A) the corruption in political life
  B) an indispensable commodity
  C) the destruction of social values
  D) an instrument of decay and of cleansing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1773:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  MR.BOROFO: I heartily curse the day my wife decided to go to

  England. Ever since then,I have had nothing but we must do this because it is done in England, we mustn't do that, because it is not done by English people and so on ad nauseam.

  The subject matter of the passage above is the

  Options:
  A) uncritical acceptance of European values
  B) woes of English marriage
  C) adventures in England
  D) intransigence of an African wife
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1774:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1775:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He always thought of the sea as a la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman'.

  Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'

  In the passage above, the sea is

  Options:
  A) romanticised
  B) personified
  C) criticised
  D) praised
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1776:

  ________is used to describe the 'god of inspiration' in literature

  Options:
  A) Muse
  B) Premiere
  C) Mood
  D) Deux Ex Machina
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1777:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

  Options:
  A) prolonged
  B) boring
  C) informal
  D) uncoordinated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1778:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1779: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a tough retired soldier
  B) a soft and gentle husband
  C) an uncompromising traditionalist
  D) a fanatical Catholic adherent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1780: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of Options:
  A) Peace
  B) Plenty
  C) Love
  D) Truth
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  The correct answer is D .