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 1001:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

  Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

  The stanza above succinctly presents the

  Options:
  A) problem of war
  B) problem of hunger
  C) folly of soldiers
  D) repercussion of violence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1002:

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

  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but ineffective
  B) conomical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1003:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  'This is the words of women. At this moment our star sits in the center of the sky

  We are supreme.'

  These words were spoken by

  Options:
  A) The favourite
  B) Sadiku
  C) Sidi
  D) the third girl
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1004:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1005:

  The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

  Options:
  A) expressed through rhetorical questions
  B) condemnation
  C) expressed through the use of innuendos
  D) concern
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1006:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1007: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on Options:
  A) childbirth
  B) wealth
  C) male child
  D) female child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1008:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1009:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  'The Prince of Cumberland!- That is a step

  On which I must fall down, or else o' erleap,

  For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!

  Let not light see my black and deep desires;...

  Macbeth in this soliloquy refers to his secret longing to become the

  Options:
  A) King of Scotland
  B) Prince of Cumberland
  C) Thane of Cawdor
  D) Thane of Glamis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1010:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .