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 941:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?

  Options:
  A) He comes to a disgreaceful end
  B) He loses his medial to another
  C) He dies eventually
  D) He dies prematurely
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 942: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The plot of the play is Options:
  A) simple
  B) convoluted
  C) chronological
  D) complicated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 943:

  This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

  " The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) imagery
  C) personification
  D) synedoche
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 944:

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

  Mr. Hardcastle asks Young Marlow to leave his house because

  Options:
  A) Marlow is not fit to be Kate's husband
  B) Young Marlow is more demanding than Hasting
  C) he is fed up with Marlow annoying behaviour
  D) Kate objects to being betrothed in absentia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 945:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 946:

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

  'I' ll do my best

  To woo your lady.'

  What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?

  Options:
  A) That she succeeds in winning the love for the master
  B) That her best is good enough to win affection
  C) That she herself becomes the beloved
  D) That she herself wins the love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 947:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  Angel Clare prefers Tess to Mercy Chant as a wife because she

  Options:
  A) is an accomplished lady
  B) is from a very god family
  C) understands farm life
  D) is a good Christian
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 948: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  James Ofosu's desire is to see Maanan trained as Options:
  A) a choreographer
  B) an attorney
  C) an accountant
  D) a surgeon
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 949:

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

  'But those are the hags and witches we wanted out of town.

  The expression hags and witches refers to

  Options:
  A) old unmarried girls and wives retired home from their husbands
  B) the three women who turned into goats
  C) all the women in the play
  D) handmaids, headwives, most favoured wives nursing mothers and pregnant wives
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 950:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

  Options:
  A) prolonged
  B) boring
  C) informal
  D) uncoordinated
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  The correct answer is C .