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 31:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  It is dramatic irony that the 'castle which has a gentle air' happens to be the

  Options:
  A) orchard of Macbeth
  B) witches' enclave
  C) forest of Dunsinane
  D) death-place of King Duncan
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 32:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In their fight, the women settle at Eyara in order to_______?

  Options:
  A) Cure cross-piece
  B) Hurt their husbands
  C) Forestall reconciliation
  D) Seeks peace
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 33:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 34: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) denotation
  C) connotation
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 36:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The mood of the poet is one of________

  Options:
  A) loneliness
  B) hopelessness
  C) happiness
  D) recklessness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 37:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 38:

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) parody
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 39: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
  Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life? Options:
  A) major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 40:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  The subject matter of Senghor's I will Pronounce Your Name is

  Options:
  A) Elissa
  B) Naett
  C) love
  D) a nameless girl
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  The correct answer is C .