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 521: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.If the earth were mortal Where would the flower live?If you left the earth What would happen to beauty?The poet's tone above can be described as Options:
  A) lamentative
  B) satiric
  C) imploring
  D) adoring
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 522: In 'Vanity', Birage Diop portrays the African predicament as arising from Options:
  A) sad complaining voices of beggars
  B) pitiful anger bowing like a tumour
  C) not listening to the dead
  D) clamouring and crying roughly over our torments
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 523:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 524:

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

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 525:

  A struggle between opposing forces in a story/play is________

  Options:
  A) Denouement
  B) Conflict
  C) Comedy
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 526:

  This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

  Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

  "The free bird thinks of another
  breeze / and the trade winds
  soft through the sighing trees"

  What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

  Options:
  A) It shows where the bird sleeps
  B) It shows the tree is sleeping
  C) It indicates that the bird is carefree
  D) It indicates that it is still early in the day
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 527:

  'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons

  The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'

  The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

  Options:
  A) redemption from ignorance
  B) violence and oppression
  C) conversion from paganism
  D) the building of beautiful edifices.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 528:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The Dorothy of the play is

  Options:
  A) Tony Lumpkin's mother
  B) Young Marlow's mother
  C) Miss Neville's mother
  D) Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 529: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and shores While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.'Countee Cullen: For a Lady I KnowThe tone of the poem above is Options:
  A) satiric
  B) affectionate
  C) indifferent
  D) sympathetic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 530:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) contrast
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .