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 Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 182:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

  Options:
  A) Gozango
  B) Negtine
  C) Bernardo
  D) Hamlet
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 183:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  Options:
  A) sharks' predatory inclination
  B) futility of human struggle
  C) old man's lack of faith
  D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 184:

  A narrative poem must

  Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) describe natural scenery
  D) argue a question
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 185: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 186:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

  Options:
  A) the principles of conflict
  B) exciting and memorable episodes
  C) the use of figurative language
  D) recurring events
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 187: 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 188: This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.In the novel, the foil to Lahab's character is Options:
  A) Tanko
  B) AI-Amin
  C) Sagiir
  D) Saahir
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 189:

  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.

  ''They too are the earth

  Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.

  Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the

  Options:
  A) material for the shoes of the poor
  B) repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
  C) hope of the oppressed for a better life
  D) oppression of the dispossessed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 190:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .