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:

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

  'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'

  This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

  Options:
  A) admiration
  B) mockery
  C) bitterness
  D) alarm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1152:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Motivation in any work is the

  Options:
  A) special figure of speech that is used in the work
  B) ovation encountered in the work
  C) difficult expression found in the work
  D) explanation of the behaviour of the characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1153:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!

  You are my mortal enemy'.

  The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) allusion
  C) apostrophe
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1154:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''....that no man however great was greater than his people; that no one ever won judgement against his clan.''

  Achebe's conclusion was that

  Options:
  A) the individual should submit his will to thatof the clan
  B) very few people have the ability to dictate to their clan
  C) a man should impose his judgement on the clan if he is strong enough to do so
  D) the clan generally ensures that the individual is reduced to weakness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1155:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

  Options:
  A) prolonged
  B) boring
  C) informal
  D) uncoordinated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1156:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A humorous play based on an unrealistic situation is considered in drama as

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) tragdy
  C) farce
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1157: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is Options:
  A) Bluntschli
  B) Sergius
  C) Petkoff
  D) Don Quixote
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1158: An allegory is a story Options:
  A) in which people or things or events have another meaning
  B) which aims at teaching a moral lesson
  C) in which allegations are made about the characters
  D) told in verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1159: Dialogue is important in drama because it Options:
  A) helps the audience to improve their English
  B) is usually funny and lively
  C) helps the audience to relax
  D) prolongs the action of the play
  E) reveals the minds of the characters.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1160:

  "Thou loosest labour

  As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air

  With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that

  Options:
  A) the air cannot be cut
  B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
  C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
  D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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  The correct answer is C .