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 241:

  'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

  In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

  Options:
  A) sea storms
  B) rain storms
  C) storming raids by the racist police
  D) storms of passion.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 242: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Time winged chariot"The line above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress depicts Options:
  A) the measurement of time
  B) how fast events unfold
  C) how fast time flies
  D) the usefulness of time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 243:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 244: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Shakespeare depicts love and idealism through the Options:
  A) party at the Capulets'
  B) lovers' tomb at the end
  C) brawl between Romeo and Tybalt
  D) balcony scene in the second Act
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 245: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to Options:
  A) Count Paris in Praise of Juliet
  B) annoy Tybalt
  C) take another wife
  D) serve as an assistance to Romeo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 246:

  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.

  The persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as

  Options:
  A) a perfectly realistic representation of the Duchess
  B) not quite capturing the Duchess emotions
  C) his most highly prized item
  D) something he is willing to pay dowry for
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 247: This question is based on William Shakespheare's Othello“ ...Fathers, from hence trust not daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?. ” In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are Options:
  A) lascivious
  B) petty
  C) pretentious
  D) thieves
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 248:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 249:

  Use excerpt below to answer questions

  "Now, by yond marble
  heaven,
  In the due reverence of a sacred vow
  I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)

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  Consequent upon the act in the excerpt, ...

  Options:
  A) Desdemona reconfessed her love for Othello
  B) Othello became Iago's sworn enemy
  C) Iago successfully executed Othello
  D) Othello changed from being the hero to a villain
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 250:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A denouement in a play

  Options:
  A) causes conflicts
  B) creates conflicts
  C) resolves conflicts
  D) creates catastrophe
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  The correct answer is C .