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 1011:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeare's OTHELLO

  "O heaven; How got she out?
  O treason of the blood!
  Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
  By what you see them act. Is there not charms
  By which the property of youth and maid-hood
  May be abused?

  The speaker of the excerpt above is________

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Othello
  C) Gratiano
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1012:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) labyrinth
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) trance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1013:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.

  W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) cbba cdda
  B) bbac ddac
  C) ddca bbca
  D) abbc addc
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1014: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood
  ''look at me jubilant for being given another opportunity to live longer, and see this foolish woman eager to end her own life when her maker is not yet ready for her...''
  The opportunity referred to in the extract above is Options:
  A) the misunderstanding between Nnaife and his wife
  B) narrowly escaping being knocked down
  C) the driver's encounter with Nnu Ego
  D) ominous visit of Agunwa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1015:

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metonymy
  C) metaphor
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1016:

  Stars hide your fires;

  Let no light see my black and deep desires

  They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'

  In these lines Shakespare uses

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) metonymy
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) simile
  E) apostophe
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1017:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,

  Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'

  The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

  Options:
  A) his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
  B) the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
  C) the ghost still loves his wife even in death
  D) the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1018:
  From the novel; Harvest of Corruption

  Chief Ade Amaka portrays_______

  Options:
  A) betrayal of public trust
  B) fraud and misfortune
  C) lust and deceitfulness
  D) the evils of capitalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1019: 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 1020:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'The dum, dum of the drum' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .