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 General Literary Principles

  'Theatre-in-the-round'is employed to achieve a

  Options:
  A) quick resolution of conflicts
  B) hilarious ending
  C) contest between the hero and the villan
  D) close rapport between players and spectators.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1112:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'I cannot blind myself

  To putrefying carcasses in the market place

  Pulling giant vultures

  From the sky.

  Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?

  The tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) anger
  C) mourning
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1113: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1114:

  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.

  'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

  Options:
  A) adventurous
  B) drunken
  C) lively
  D) restive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1115:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1116:

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

  Henchard arranged a meeting with Susan that the Ring instead of in his house because

  Options:
  A) the Ring was a meeting-warden for lovers
  B) the Ring was a spot for appointments of furtive kind
  C) Susan was ashamed to come over to his house
  D) his reputation as the church-warden and mayor was at stake
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1117:

  ''London''I wander thro'' each charter''d streetNear where the charter''d Thames does flow,And mark in every face i meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe

  In every cry of every ManIn every infant''s cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles i hear.

  How the chimney-sweeper''s cryEvery black''ning Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier''s sighRuns in blood down Palace walls.

  But most thro'' midnight streets i hearHow the youthful Harlot''s curse Blasts the new born infant''s tear,And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.The stanza form in ''London'' is referred to as

  Options:
  A) a quartet
  B) a quatrain
  C) a quadruple
  D) quintet
  E) sestet.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1118: A novel is Options:
  A) a long prose narrative fiction
  B) an interesting story about a hero
  C) a prose writings that deals with various people
  D) a long story in which homan characters represents abstract qualities
  E) a prose writing about the lives of great and interesting people.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1119:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'And when He looks at the grimy coating,

  Caking off your emaciated skin,...'

  These lines from Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper' describe

  Options:
  A) the texture of the pauper's skin
  B) the coat the pauper was wearing
  C) the effect of the surroundings
  D) poverty and dirt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1120: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.
  Which of the following characters fight against vague idealism in life? Options:
  A) major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .