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 461: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
  And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
  The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
  In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because Options:
  A) of his insanity
  B) such attentions cannot be given by too young a person
  C) of his mournful state
  D) the sincerity of his love is in doubt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 462:

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

  The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

  Options:
  A) the humiliation that is in old age
  B) man's refudeal to grow old
  C) different types of characters in the story
  D) the failing productivity that accompanies old age
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 463: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe plot of a story generally refers to the Options:
  A) intrigue made by a character against the hero
  B) way in which the events of the story are organized
  C) way in which the writer begin the story
  D) way the writer ends the story
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 464:

  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 disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 465: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  What prompts Nnu Ego to run to the effigy of her Chi is that Options:
  A) she is worried and sick
  B) she is pregnant
  C) the Chi asks her to come
  D) milk is dripping from her breasts
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 466: "The madman has entered our house with violence
  Defiling our sacred grounds
  Claiming the single truth of the universe
  Bending down our priest with iron".
  Mazzizi Kunnene's progress
  The imagery of the line above captures the idea of Options:
  A) coercion
  B) truth
  C) religiosity
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 467: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.The mob in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a monster and a snake
  B) a bad group
  C) demonstrators
  D) fighters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 468:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

  The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  Options:
  A) contempt and admiration
  B) hatred and pity
  C) contempt and disregard
  D) disregard and pity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 469: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The diction of the play can be described as Options:
  A) political and rhetorical
  B) arrogant and condemnatory
  C) urgent but apolitical
  D) poetic but difficult
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 470: These qustion is 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of Options:
  A) simile
  B) anaphora
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopia
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  The correct answer is A .