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: When the Franklin declares in the prologue to his tale that he has 'not slept on mount Parnassus' he meant that Options:
  A) his bed has always uncomfortable
  B) he has sleepless nights
  C) he has no literary pretensions
  D) he is well-versed in rhetorics
  E) he is a poor sleeper.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1322: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
  Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
  The poem above can best be described as
  Options:
  A) epic
  B) heroic
  C) praise
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1323: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a Options:
  A) leich
  B) lay
  C) lauda
  D) letrilla
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1324: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as Options:
  A) prologue
  B) epitome
  C) epilogue
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1325:

  "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

  Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

  And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Apothecary
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Lord Montague
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1326: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Lawrence's Bat the poet's attitude to bat is one of Options:
  A) fear
  B) sarcasm
  C) contempt
  D) flattering
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1327: '...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he Options:
  A) he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  B) exiled Aderopo from his presence
  C) treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  D) no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1328: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to Options:
  A) discover the beauty of a literary work
  B) finds faults in a literary work
  C) analyse and evaluate a literary work
  D) compare literary works
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1329: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The central conflict in the play is Options:
  A) religious
  B) romantic
  C) generational
  D) communal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1330:

  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 .