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 831:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

  Options:
  A) capitalists and the socialists
  B) bourgeoisie and the proteriat
  C) market women and the men
  D) farmers and the consumers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 832: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.In The Mouse-trap, the murderer is Options:
  A) Claudius
  B) Lucianus
  C) Gozango
  D) Baptista
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 833: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 834:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 835:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

  Options:
  A) butterfly
  B) bird
  C) bee
  D) wood nymph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 836:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair' The statement above characterizes

  Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 837:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'.

  What baby is being referred to in the above statement?

  Options:
  A) The stillborn
  B) The reunion of Li and Habu
  C) Li's expected baby
  D) The meeting of Shuwa and her father
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 838:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  According to the play, the Duke of illyria is fascinated by

  Options:
  A) the idea of love
  B) the food of love
  C) music
  D) entertainment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 839:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'El - Hadji Abdou Kader Beye was received in princely style at the girl's home. The food was exquisite and the scent of incense filled N'Gone's small wooden room. Nothing was omitted in the careful process of conditioning the man.'

  Sembane Ousmane, 'Xala'

  The writer suggests in the passage above that El-Hadji is

  Options:
  A) a prince
  B) a food lover
  C) being entertained
  D) being manipulated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 840:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .