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 William Shakespeare's Othello.

  Othello kills himself with a

  Options:
  A) bottle
  B) sword
  C) gun
  D) knife
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'Loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands out the woodland ride Wearing While for Easter tide

  A.E Housman Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Tree. In the excerpt above, the subject matter is

  Options:
  A) love of trees
  B) cherry bloom
  C) snow at easter
  D) woodland tide
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: 'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which Options:
  A) defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
  B) explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
  C) refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
  D) emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
  E) highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 4:

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

  The confusion in the poet in D.H. Lawrence's poem 'Snake' arises from

  Options:
  A) education and love
  B) fascination and fear
  C) anger and hospitability
  D) protest and regret
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5: The novel Thin gs Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was first published in Options:
  A) 1948
  B) 1952
  C) 1958
  D) 1960
  E) 1962
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .
• Question 6:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 7: 'I breathed a sigh of relief when i was twenty-six, determined that from then on my life will take a turn for the better. To make sure this happened I did two things which made sure it never could: i got a job, and I got married'.The quality which this passage displays is Options:
  A) inaccessibility
  B) seriousness
  C) humour
  D) gloom
  E) nervousness.
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

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

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is A .
• Question 9:

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) parody
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is D .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) tragdy
  C) farce
  D) burlesque
  Show Answer
  The correct answer is C .