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: Which group of characters appears in Macbeth? Options:
  A) Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
  B) Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
  C) Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
  D) Duncan, frederick, Banquo
  E) Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1112: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1113:

  The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

  Options:
  A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
  B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
  C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
  D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1114: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'An unlucky creation His mother, a street walker;His lying father,A champion at producing bastards.'B.S.: Tibenderana; The BastardThe subject of the poem above is Options:
  A) a prostitute
  B) the lying father
  C) the son
  D) the orphan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1115:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Oswald Mtshali's 'They Washerwoman's Prayer' is

  Options:
  A) a pious appeal to God
  B) about the permanence of apartheid
  C) concerned with laundry
  D) about slave labour
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1116:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  Hardy employs the character of Henchard to propagate the notion of

  Options:
  A) confessing our weaknesses
  B) courageously combating adversity
  C) taking steadfast decisions
  D) accepting inevitable defeat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1117:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1118: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1119: 'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) paradox
  C) euphemism
  D) allusion.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1120:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  The madman has entered our house with violence

  Defiling our sacred grounds

  Claiming the single truth of the universe

  Bending down our high priests with iron,'

  Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'

  The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of

  Options:
  A) coercion
  B) religiousity
  C) truth
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is A .