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 1111:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  In what particular way did Raina demonstrate that she had fallen in love with Captain Bluntschli by the end of their first meeting?

  Options:
  A) By giving him chocolate creams which he preferred to bullets
  B) By introducing him to hermother
  C) By giving him her portrait with an inscription
  D) By saving his life from the Serbian soldiers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1112:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  By allowing Sule to return to the village in spite of his earlier vow, the author suggests the existence of

  Options:
  A) a destiny that awaits mankind
  B) a bond between man and his roots
  C) homesickness in city dwellers
  D) kind feelings in all villagers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1113: The line 'Ask them why they idle there' in Kofi Awoonor's Song of Sorrow' is a reference to Options:
  A) ancestors
  B) loafers
  C) vagabonds
  D) urchins
  E) ancestors
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1114:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The plot of the novel is

  Options:
  A) cyclical
  B) achronological
  C) convoluted
  D) linear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1115:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

  Unruly sun

  Why dost thou thus

  Through windows

  And through curtains

  Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe excerpts above suggests

  Options:
  A) welcoming the sun
  B) indictment of the sun
  C) praise of nature
  D) invitation to the sun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1116: In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could Options:
  A) become pagans
  B) appreciate the beauty of Nature more
  C) go to see Proteus and Triton
  D) become part of Nation
  E) give their 'hearts aways
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1117:

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

  Come away, come away, death,

  And in sad cypress let me be laid...

  In the lines above, the character is

  Options:
  A) expressing his unhappiness about death
  B) expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  C) lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  D) wishing for death to come
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1118: Which of the following statements best describes comedy? Options:
  A) A play in which nobody dies
  B) A play which makes us laugh
  C) A play in which the hero is a clown
  D) A play which ends happily
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1119:

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the important tales of heroes of the past era
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1120: 'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of Options:
  A) excitement
  B) warmth
  C) hopefulness
  D) high spirits
  E) sadness.
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  The correct answer is E .