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 1161:

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

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1162: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winton's dreams of Options:
  A) freedom and democracy
  B) wealth and capitalism
  C) sovereignty
  D) internal security
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1163: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1164:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1165:

  The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

  Options:
  A) stanza
  B) rhythm
  C) rhyme
  D) verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1166:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead. In the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size',

  E. Pope, 'Cask of Amontillado'

  In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of

  Options:
  A) cannibalism
  B) monstrosity
  C) evil
  D) doom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1167:

  "Nightfall! Nightfall!! You are my mortal enemy". The dominant figure of speech above is a/an________

  Options:
  A) Ode
  B) Apostrophe
  C) Allusion
  D) Metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1168: What feeling dominates J.P Clark''s ''Song''? Options:
  A) Joy
  B) Optimism
  C) Cynicism
  D) Grief
  E) Uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1169: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties? Options:
  A) An inner tube of a bicycle
  B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
  C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
  D) A bottle of gin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1170: The account of experiences of an individual during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an epilogue
  B) an autobiography
  C) a travelogue
  D) a prologue
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  The correct answer is C .