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 1101:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

  Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

  The passage above describes a troop of

  Options:
  A) cows
  B) elephants
  C) camels
  D) horses
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1102:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1103: This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days.The cap-picking ceremony is to Options:
  A) break the strong will of Yaremi
  B) make Yaremi remarry
  C) establish that she is wicked
  D) prove that Ajumobi is not the best
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1104:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1105:

  'But 't is strange:

  And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

  The instrument of darkness tells us truths,

  Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences'.

  These words were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Banquo
  B) Macbeth
  C) Malcolm
  D) Lady Macbeth
  E) Macduff.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1106:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) demetia
  D) cleansing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1107: In Shakespeare''s Macbeth, the central character-Macbeth-is Options:
  A) a Russhian general
  B) a Scottish general
  C) a Finnish general
  D) an English general
  E) a German general
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1108: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
  And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
  The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
  In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because Options:
  A) of his insanity
  B) such attentions cannot be given by too young a person
  C) of his mournful state
  D) the sincerity of his love is in doubt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1109:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.

  The heavy downpour on the night of Meka's investiture symbolises.

  Options:
  A) revelation
  B) conviction
  C) blessing
  D) mockery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1110:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

  'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

  In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

  Options:
  A) has wasted all his mother's money
  B) is money
  C) has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
  D) has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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  The correct answer is C .