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 181: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the Options:
  A) mystery of existence
  B) omnipotence of God
  C) duality of life
  D) inevitability of death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 182:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Which of the following are literary genres?

  Options:
  A) Poetry, farce and faction
  B) Fiction, poetry and drama
  C) Drama, faction and biography
  D) Poetry , orthography and fiction.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 183:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An inherent quality of the lyric is that it must

  Options:
  A) be sung to a musical instrument
  B) be sung by the poet who composes it
  C) express the poet's subjective emotions
  D) be simple and successful.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 184: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The plot of the play is Options:
  A) simple
  B) convoluted
  C) chronological
  D) complicated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 185: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.The constant companion of Nnaife's family are Options:
  A) poverty and hunger
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) disagreemnt and humiliation
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 186:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

  Drink

  Life to the lees, all times I have

  Enjoyed

  Greatly, have suffered greatly"

  A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) is determined to suffer
  B) has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) will cure his sour mood
  D) will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 187: This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello."...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?....." The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______? Options:
  A) Othello
  B) Lago
  C) Brabantio
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 188:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  '...Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.'Those being ridiculed here are the

  Options:
  A) spinsters
  B) husbands
  C) wives
  D) old women
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 189:

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) terror
  C) horror
  D) frustration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 190:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?

  If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?

  The literary style used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) discursive
  B) rhetorical
  C) accusative
  D) interrogative
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  The correct answer is B .