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:

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) set of three one-act drama written by related authors
  B) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
  C) sequence of three plays written by the same author
  D) collection of three poems of equal length
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  The Ministry of Truth is concerned with Options:
  A) news entertainment, education and fine arts
  B) propaganda, war, publishing and enlightenment
  C) investigation, propaganda and fine arts
  D) economic affairs, education and propaganda
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 3:

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

  What basic character traits are revealed by Bluntschli's description of himself as 'a free citizen' and Raina's reference to him as 'my chocolate cream soldier?

  Options:
  A) Affection and tale-bearing
  B) Facetiousness
  C) Simplicity and naturalness
  D) Obduracy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 4:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  Jibunoh was simply a difficult man.He was relation. He all his neighbours and deserted by his relations policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for decency or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friend. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning.'The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

  Options:
  A) wickedness
  B) insanity
  C) lawlessness
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) invocation
  C) personification
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7:

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

  The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of

  Options:
  A) nature
  B) friendship
  C) womanhood
  D) love
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 8:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  The novel is set after which major war?

  Options:
  A) First World War (1914-1918)
  B) Aba Women Riot (1929)
  C) Second World War (1939-1945)
  D) The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'

  Gabriel Okara: The Voice

  It can be inferred from the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is a porter
  B) listener is wise
  C) speaker is a murderer
  D) speaker is more experienced
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  'Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,

  For it hath cowed my better part of man;

  And be these juggling fiends no more believed,...

  That keep the word of promise to our ear,

  And break it to our hope...'

  The speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Macduff confronted Macbeth for the final battle
  B) Macbeth realized the truth of the witches prediction
  C) Duncan heard that Malcolm and Macduff had descended on Dunsinane to attack Macbeth
  D) Macbeth heard that his wife had been killed
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  The correct answer is A .