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 841:

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

  ...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?

  What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''

  These questions are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Louka
  B) Sophia
  C) Raina
  D) Catherine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 842:

  The oracle warns us that we we have left our pot unwatched, and our food now burns.'

  This statement in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers to

  Options:
  A) the killing of Adetusa
  B) the crime of incest committed by King Odewale
  C) Aderopo's quarrel with King Odewale
  D) the banishment of Aderopo.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 843:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step

  On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,

  For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!

  Let not light see my black and deep desires;...

  Macbeth in this soliloquy refers to his secret longing to become the

  Options:
  A) King of Scotland
  B) Prince of Cumberland
  C) Thane of Cawdor
  D) Thane of Glamis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 844:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  ...'the hawk will flutter and turn

  On its wings and swoop for the mouse,

  The dogs will run for the hare,

  The hare for its little life.'

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' mean that

  Options:
  A) this is a hunting season
  B) there is chaos
  C) the hare will be killed
  D) the hawk and the dogs are strong
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 845:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation. '' 'The white man of God is coming here for Easter! The white man of God is coming to spend Easter with us!' This was the talk everywhere in Nkar among the old and young, even among the pagans. We had been taught everything about him in advance, When he comes we should observe his beard and see if it was not forked like that of .Christ.''

  Kenjo Jumban:The white man of God From the passage, the white man of God is treated with

  Options:
  A) awe
  B) derision
  C) suspicion
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 846: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Senghor's I will pronounce Your Name, 'cinnamon'is significant for its Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) botanical allusion
  C) olfactory image
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 847:

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

  The struggle between the old man and the fish symbolizes

  Options:
  A) the blood thirsty nature of sharks
  B) man's refusal to grow old
  C) man's struggle for survival in a harsh world
  D) the uncertainty of life in a cruel world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 848:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun

  My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;

  But swear by thyself, that at my death thy sun

  Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;

  And, having done that, thou hast done,

  I fear no more.'

  These lines from John Donne's 'Hymn to God the Father' contain examples of

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) quibble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 849:

  _____ is used to describe the predetermination of a future event in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) Analepsis
  B) Prolepsis
  C) Interlude
  D) Fatalism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 850: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .