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 1341: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1342: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1343:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '... It is not yet dawn

  And we wake from one nightmara

  To another.'

  In these lines from Ojaide's The Owl Wake Us', the mood is that of a

  Options:
  A) terrifying dream
  B) seemingly endless night
  C) vicious cycle of oppression
  D) persona's experience
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1344: Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were Options:
  A) completely happy
  B) a mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
  C) dominated by entirely painful incidents
  D) a mixture od sad and happy expiriences
  E) a combination of regret and hatred of the teachers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1345:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

  Options:
  A) warriors
  B) Germans
  C) Mzee
  D) listeners
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1346:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an epic
  C) a ballad
  D) a singer's story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1347:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Which of the following divisions is used as`a technical device to denote the symbolic significance of certain events?

  Options:
  A) Day, morning and afternoon
  B) Morning, noon and night
  C) Morning, evening and midnight
  D) Mid-day, midnight and morning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1348:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1349:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Comic relief is

  Options:
  A) the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
  B) a figure of speech used in comic theatre
  C) the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
  D) a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1350:

  "Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth"Wole Soyinka: "Night".

  Night children in the stanza above reflectsthe consciousness of__________

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) armed robbers
  C) animals
  D) spirit beings
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  The correct answer is D .