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 111:

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed by the director
  B) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  C) attacks the character foil
  D) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 112: Kenneth Kaunda fought a much bigger boy from another school after a football match because he Options:
  A) was quarrelsome
  B) was aggressive and violet by nature
  C) though they lost the match through foul play
  D) had a great sense of honour and fair play
  E) disliked the boys from the other school.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 113: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 114: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Abbas' money which is stone from his bag is Options:
  A) his inheritance from his uncle
  B) his inheritance from his father
  C) the proceeds from the goods he sells
  D) the money his friend gives him
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 115:

  Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
  Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
  sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
  Wole Soyinka: "Night"

  The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 116: Point out the odd term Options:
  A) Enjambment
  B) Rhyme
  C) Alliteration
  D) Assonance
  E) plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 117:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  This thing you are doing is too heavy for you' he said . I went to school only a little, but I have killed many many more years in this world than you have,'

  Gabriel Okara: The Voice

  It can be inferred from the passage above that the

  Options:
  A) listener is a porter
  B) listener is wise
  C) speaker is a murderer
  D) speaker is more experienced
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 118: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello."Though I do hate him as I do pains, yet for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love, which is indeed but sign..."The speaker of the excerpt above can be described as Options:
  A) trusting
  B) a concubine
  C) a schemer
  D) ambitious
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 119:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 120:

  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.

  In Mtshalis 'The Washerwoman's Prayer' the condition of the woman is portrayed through

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) juxtaposition
  C) comparison
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .