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 1151: 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 1152: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Shakespeare depicts love and idealism through the Options:
  A) party at the Capulets'
  B) lovers' tomb at the end
  C) brawl between Romeo and Tybalt
  D) balcony scene in the second Act
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1153: Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were Options:
  A) completely happy
  B) a mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
  C) dominated by entirely painful incidents
  D) a mixture od sad and happy expiriences
  E) a combination of regret and hatred of the teachers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1154:

  A significant literary device employed by Morris in 'The Proud King' is that of________

  Options:
  A) Suspense
  B) Nemesis
  C) Agon
  D) Interlude
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1155:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) contented
  B) indifferent
  C) anxious
  D) enthusiastic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1156: In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents Options:
  A) the oppression of whites by the Africans
  B) white people's fear by the Africans
  C) the black victimization of white people
  D) the oppression of the Africans by the white people
  E) the rebelion of the white people
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1157:

  The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapors weep their burden to the ground,

  Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,

  And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The theme of these lines is

  Options:
  A) the falling of leaves
  B) the ground on which the leaves fall
  C) man as a farmer
  D) the power of death over every life
  E) the flight of birds in certain reasons
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1158: Which of the following terms is exclusive to drama? Options:
  A) Dialogue
  B) Plot
  C) Protagonist
  D) Soliloguy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1159:

  In J.P Clark's Olokun', the line

  'So drunken like ancient walls'

  Means that the worshipers are drunken with

  Options:
  A) wine served at Olokun's altar
  B) sacred water since Olokun rules the sea
  C) bounties to be bestowned by Olokun
  D) intense awe of Olokun
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1160:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.

  George Orwell: Animal Farm

  Form the passage above, the character being described is

  Options:
  A) enthusiastic
  B) altruistic
  C) cynical
  D) lazy
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  The correct answer is C .