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 551:

  "Thou loosest labour

  As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air

  With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that

  Options:
  A) the air cannot be cut
  B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
  C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
  D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 552:

  Use excerpt below to answer questions

  "Now, by yond marble
  heaven,
  In the due reverence of a sacred vow
  I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)

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  What incident ignited the excerpt above?

  Options:
  A) the taking of a vow of revenge
  B) Othello's rage about Desdemona's betrayal
  C) Iago's conspiracy with Brabantio to kill Othello
  D) Desdemona and Emilia's discussion on the lost handkerchief
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 553:

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

  The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  Options:
  A) sharks' predatory inclination
  B) futility of human struggle
  C) old man's lack of faith
  D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 554:

  'I am jealous and passonate
  Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
  J.P Clark: Olokun
  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) paradox
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 555:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand.

  You don't know what marriage means to me....'These words by Ramatoulaye are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Mawdo
  B) her mother-in-law
  C) Daouda Dieng
  D) Tamsir
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 556: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 557: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A structural arrangement of units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 558: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 559:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  Options:
  A) a pastoral
  B) an epithalamium
  C) a prothalamium
  D) a terza rima
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 560:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The form of poetry that celebrates with nostalgia the ideal world of the countryside is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) a ballad
  C) an elegy
  D) a pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .