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 1041:

  "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

  A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above suggests that the tragedy in the play

  Options:
  A) could have been averted
  B) is predestined
  C) is brought on enmity
  D) brought misfortune on the lovers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1042: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  The atmosphere of tragedy in the play is created through the use of Options:
  A) dreams and foreboding
  B) fights and quarrels
  C) wars and hatred
  D) ideas and dramatization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1043:

  Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) hopeless
  B) afraid
  C) confident
  D) uncertain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1044:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

  your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

  I think ....

  CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

  JERO: You must take her home tonight...

  Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  Options:
  A) keep his secret secret
  B) get the beating out of the way quickly
  C) enable jero get into his house
  D) keep Chume's loyalty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1045: The treatment meted out to Cinna the poet in Julius Caesar shows Options:
  A) that roman soldiers despised poets generally
  B) Shakespeare's use of mistaken identity for comic effect in the play
  C) the misfortune of Roman poets
  D) the spontaneous reaction of the plebians after assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1046:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1047:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Twelfth Night is preoccupied with the juxtaposition of

  Options:
  A) death and disappointment
  B) appearance and reality
  C) life and disappointment
  D) love and death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1048: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1049:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who remains unchanged in a work of art is called

  Options:
  A) a stereotypic character
  B) a flat character
  C) a round character
  D) an illusive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1050:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses To Tears

  The stealing of three thousand naira by the messenger and the manner of its presentation can be interpreted as Gimba's

  Options:
  A) sentimental attachment to money
  B) approbation of stealing
  C) condemnaton of social injustice
  D) justification of social vices
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  The correct answer is C .