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 11:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  Othello kills himself with a

  Options:
  A) bottle
  B) sword
  C) gun
  D) knife
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 12: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.The cap-picking ceremony is to Options:
  A) break the strong will of Yaremi
  B) make Yaremi remarry
  C) establish that she is wicked
  D) prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 13:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubi's experience at the peasants' camp is narrated through a dramatic technique called

  Options:
  A) reflection
  B) projection
  C) dramatic irony
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 14:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The morning mist

  And chimney smoke

  Of White City Jabavu

  Flowed thick yellow

  As pus oozing

  From a gigantic sore'

  'An Abandoned Bundle' by Oswald M. Mtsha 'i

  The simile above gives rise to

  Options:
  A) a graphic description
  B) an abstract presentation
  C) a philosophical statement
  D) graffitti
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 15:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun

  My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;

  But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun

  Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;

  And, having done that, thou hast done,

  I fear no more.'

  These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) quibble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 16:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'A great city is a battlefield...You need to be a fighter to live in it, not exist, mark you, live. Anybody can exist, dragging his soul around behind him like a worn-out coat; but living is different'

  'To Sir with Love' by E.R. Braithwaite

  The literary device predominantly used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) oxymoron
  C) symbolism
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 17: This question is based on Ademiluyi's The New Man.
  The metamorphosis that takes place in the novel is manly due to Options:
  A) disillusionment
  B) greed and avarice
  C) love and affection
  D) selfishness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 18: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 19:

  "...If someone threw you a rope when you were

  Drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you

  Don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I

  Mean?"Based on the novel "Piggy's",the "rope" and the doctor's prescription refers to the

  Options:
  A) pig
  B) beast
  C) conch
  D) smoke signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 20: 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 .