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 991:

  'The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

  Macbeth is putting this question to

  Options:
  A) Banquo
  B) the witches
  C) hid servant
  D) Ross and Angus
  E) Lady Macbeth.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 992:

  This is my letter to the world

  That never wrote to me

  The simple news that Nature told

  With tender majestyHer message is committed

  To hands I cannot see;

  For love of her, sweet countrymen

  Judge tenderly of me'To whom does 'her' in line 5 refer?

  Options:
  A) majesty
  B) world
  C) tender
  D) Nature
  E) the poet's sister
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 993:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 994:

  He put himself in uniform, made one for

  His five-year-old son, and marched with

  The infant from dawn till noon every

  Market day, on the main road singing

  'Kayiwawa beturi...The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as

  Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) abnormal
  C) energetic
  D) a policeman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 995:

  Woke, once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved. are

  Sides full nerved still warm too hard

  To stir was it, for this the clay grew

  Tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams

  Toil to break earth's sleep at allUse the lines above to answer this questions;The theme of the poem is

  Options:
  A) distortion of life
  B) creation of life
  C) vanity of life
  D) futility of life
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 996: In Julius Caesar, we learn that political success depends largely on Options:
  A) virture, honesty and patrotism
  B) cunning and a readiness to make uses others
  C) a strong body and good career as a soldier
  D) a sound training in political science and public
  E) having a generous, sympathetic and God-fearing spiritn
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 997: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 998: A sonnet is a poem of Options:
  A) fourteen lines
  B) ten lines
  C) seven stanzas
  D) six stanzas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 999: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  In the play, the character of Lawyer B is presented through the use of Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) flashback
  C) dialogue
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1000:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

  Options:
  A) enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
  B) dispossessing him of his piece of land
  C) conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
  D) organizing a deceitful dancing competition
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  The correct answer is B .