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 261:

  These question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; A villain that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night.'

  The villain in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) engaging in a shouty match
  B) holding a sword to commit murder
  C) attempting to steal
  D) attending a feast uninvited
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 262:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In Agostinho Neto's 'Night', night basically symbolises

  Options:
  A) Political oppression
  B) social deprivation
  C) moral depravity
  D) spiritual decay
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 263: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who Options:
  A) is undeveloped
  B) undergoes changes
  C) dies abruptly
  D) achieves greatness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 264:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  From the tragedy of Tess, it can be said that Thomas Hardy is concerned with the evils of

  Options:
  A) modernization
  B) industrialization
  C) democratization
  D) colonization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 265:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 266:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 267:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent

  I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's

  Fluorescence, dance on the pulse

  Incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night

  The lines above suggests that women are

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) seers
  C) magicians
  D) covetous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 268:

  These elements are sections of text within a chapter, they are separated and contain dialogue_____________

  Options:
  A) Syncopation
  B) Free Verse
  C) Paragraphs
  D) Euphony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 269:

  Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) trance
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) labyrinth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 270: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  The concern of the poet in Serenade is to Options:
  A) boast about the lover's wealth
  B) appeal to the lady in question
  C) examine the gloomy side of marriage
  D) express the lady's sense of grief
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  The correct answer is B .