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 1321: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to Options:
  A) Count Paris in Praise of Juliet
  B) annoy Tybalt
  C) take another wife
  D) serve as an assistance to Romeo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1322:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''She wanted to spit herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go You known I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this, ...'she slapped the Samson and Deliah.'''

  Festus lyayi: Violence

  In the passage above, the speaker can described as

  Options:
  A) domineering
  B) tyreacherous
  C) friendly
  D) hungry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1323: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes Options:
  A) an object of religious worship
  B) the poet's mother
  C) the poet's cultural traditions
  D) a river in the poet's village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1324: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  The atmosphere of tragedy in the play is created through the use of Options:
  A) dreams and foreboding
  B) fights and quarrels
  C) wars and hatred
  D) ideas and dramatization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1325: Which of the following illustrate the element of chance in Romeo and Juliet? Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo
  B) Rosaline rejection of Romeo's love
  C) Juliet's confiding in her nurse
  D) The death of Lady Mountague.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1326:

  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.

  The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

  Options:
  A) making us more conscious of the earth
  B) beautifying the experience the poem describes
  C) accusing us of human insensitivity
  D) enhancing the imagery of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1327:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1328: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The major role of Mercutio in the play is to Options:
  A) serve as a contrast to Romeo
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) accompany Romeo to Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1329:

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Melancholic
  B) Ironic
  C) Harsh
  D) Derisive
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1330: Peter Abraham's Mine Boy is about one of the following Options:
  A) opression through labour
  B) the dignity of labour
  C) happy childhood
  D) conflict of the culture
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is D .