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 1191:

  You

  Your head is like a drum that is beaten

  For spirits

  Your ears are like the fans used for

  Blowing fire.The lines above are a good example of

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) lampoon
  C) caricature
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1192: Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as Options:
  A) a novel
  B) a tragic play
  C) an autobiography
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1193:

  These elements are sections of text within a chapter, they are separated and contain dialogue_____________

  Options:
  A) Syncopation
  B) Free Verse
  C) Paragraphs
  D) Euphony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1194: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are Options:
  A) anapestic
  B) trochaic
  C) spondaic
  D) dactylic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1195: The run on' lines in J.P Clark's poem, 'Night Rain', suggest the Options:
  A) poet's ignorance of punctuation rules
  B) long duration of that night
  C) intensity of the darkness of that night
  D) deep, soothing sleep of the poet under the night rain
  E) continuous pouring down of the night rain
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1196:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  '...My son is not to live by his learning. I don't think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.'

  What provokes this response from the speaker is the accusation that

  Options:
  A) Tony is in reality without a fortune
  B) Tony is not a man of consequence
  C) Marlow is too bashful and reserved
  D) Tony has not had a good breeding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1197:

  'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

  Hold back hold back-is the time- oh

  Endless time-slung in oblivion,

  Make minced meat of your prey.'

  Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

  The mood captured in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) happiness
  C) indifference
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1198:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1199: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1200:

  'Thou losest labour

  As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'

  Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from

  Options:
  A) the quality of his military uniform
  B) the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals
  C) the fact that the witches has given him charms
  D) the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him
  E) the fact that he is as light as Air.
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  The correct answer is D .