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 1081:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'And so Tom awake and we rose in the dark

  And got with our bags and our brushes to work

  Though the morning was cold. Tom was happy and warm;

  So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

  In the lines above. Tom is warm because he

  Options:
  A) has just woken from sleep
  B) is doing his duty
  C) is wearing warm clothes
  D) is working indoors
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1082: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, a quatrain is a group of four Options:
  A) lines
  B) stanzas
  C) refrains
  D) poems
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1083: There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is Options:
  A) Lena
  B) Drunk Liz
  C) Malsey
  D) Paddy
  E) Eliza.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1084:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The morning mist

  And chimney smoke

  Of White City Jabavu

  Flowed thick yellow

  As pus oozing

  From a gigantic sore'

  'An Abandoned Bundle' by Oswald M. Mtsha 'i

  The simile above gives rise to

  Options:
  A) a graphic description
  B) an abstract presentation
  C) a philosophical statement
  D) graffitti
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1085: This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  Thorn in Adeotiu's Naked Soles symbolizes Options:
  A) victory
  B) bleakness
  C) destruction
  D) suffering
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1086:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A melodramatic play isbased on

  Options:
  A) a melodious manipulation of events
  B) ingredients that mellow down events
  C) sensational plot and characters
  D) the playwright's didactic overtones
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1087:

  Which of these is the meaning of CAST?

  Options:
  A) a list of all characters in a drama
  B) what the character is saying
  C) the person who writes the drama
  D) a list of protagonists in a drama
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1088: 'Hence! Wilt thou lift up Olympus?'is a memorable lines from Julius Caesar by Options:
  A) Brutus
  B) Mark Antony
  C) Octavius Caesar
  D) Cassius
  E) Julius Caesar
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1089: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A conscious imitation of a literary work by another with the aim of ridicule is Options:
  A) performance
  B) mockery
  C) mimesis
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1090:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .