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 511:

  Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

  Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

  Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

  To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

  Options:
  A) surprise
  B) lament
  C) uncertainty
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 512: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The major reason for Juliet's grief is Options:
  A) the death of her cousin
  B) her reluctant marriage to the County
  C) the banishment of her lover
  D) her imminent death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 513:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 514:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 515:

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

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 516:

  '' It was dawn, and the windows were dark except for the Workmen cafes. The sky was like a avast flat wall of cobalt, with roofs and spires of black paper pasted upon it. Drowsy men were sweeping the pavements with ten-foot brooms, and ragged families picking over the dustbins. Workmen and girls with piece of chocolate in one hand and bread in the other were pouring into the railway station.'

  The picture presented above is one of

  Options:
  A) poverty in urban areas
  B) monotony of the town life
  C) landscape at sunrise
  D) sordid industrial town.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 517:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

  Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

  In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) resignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 518: Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled? Options:
  A) A climatic episode
  B) An impersonal dramatic piece
  C) An allusive dialogue
  D) A love story told by balled singer
  E) A poem that tells a folk story
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 519:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  
  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but effecive
  B) economical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 520: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.In a narrative poem,the poet attempts to Options:
  A) describe a place
  B) preach a sermon
  C) tell a story
  D) summarize a story
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  The correct answer is C .