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 1:

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

  The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

  Options:
  A) as an aside
  B) by a chorus off-stage
  C) on-stage and off-stage
  D) off-stage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2: "Kwarshiorkor", "grave", "ravage", "wreck", "funeral", "piles" and fearful". These words from J.P. Clarks "The Casualties" connote Options:
  A) war
  B) burial
  C) casualty
  D) disaster
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3:

  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 .
• Question 4:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) fable
  C) prose
  D) picaresque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'The old Squire was an implacable man: he made resolutions in violent anger, but he was not moved from them after his anger subsided as fiery as volcanic matters cool and harden into rock

  George Eliot, Silas Marner

  In the statement above, the Squire is portrayed as a

  Options:
  A) kind and generous friend
  B) father to everyone in the community
  C) miserly and ungracious ruler
  D) quick tempered and adamant man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 6:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent

  I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's

  Fluorescence, dance on the pulse

  Incessant. Wole Soyinka:Night

  The lines above suggests that women are

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) seers
  C) magicians
  D) covetous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The play is about love Options:
  A) longing and ambition
  B) pretence and hatred
  C) loss and death
  D) commitment and marriage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  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.

  'There where the need for good and ''the doing good'' conflict.'

  In these two lines from Lenrie Peters' The Fence', the speaker says that

  Options:
  A) ''doing good'' is the opposite of the need for good
  B) he cannot do good deeds
  C) action often conflicts with knowledge
  D) he lies on the fence between good and evil
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  The major thematic preoccupation of her play is

  Options:
  A) the constraintic on parental obligations
  B) the problems of class and English mannerisms
  C) the presentation of a mannerless society
  D) changing the traditional view about English comedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10: One of the themes of macbeth is Options:
  A) how to become a thene
  B) the prophecy of the weird sisters
  C) the fight with the macduff
  D) the defect of evil by good
  E) the death of duncan.
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  The correct answer is D .