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 1401:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.

  It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.

  The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

  Options:
  A) Binetou and Modou Fall
  B) Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
  C) Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
  D) Aissatou and Ramatoulaye
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1402:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  'What is in the past is gone forever. it is only the present that belongs to us! Grasp what chance of happiness you can find at the moment with both hands!

  The past in the extract above refers to

  Options:
  A) Odibe
  B) Norman
  C) Chris
  D) Odili
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1403: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression Options:
  A) Sestet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1404:

  The question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate

  The word As I hate hell, all Montagues,

  And thee Have at thee,coward!"Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the lines above reveal the speaker as a

  Options:
  A) real Montague
  B) trouble shooter
  C) violence seeker
  D) peace maker
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1405:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  What is the author's final message in the novel?

  Options:
  A) Human beings are born evil
  B) Lovers should never separate
  C) man must confront his fate
  D) The city is a wicked place
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1406:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.''Blood was to prove no solace to the king. The rejection he had suffered at Idama's hands pushed his spirit into a comfortless hole in which,alone with himself,he searched in vain for ways to run from his inner emptiness.'

  Ayi Kwei Armah: Two Thousand Seasons.

  The narrator's attitude to the king is one of

  Options:
  A) envy
  B) suspicion
  C) contempt
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1407:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.Piano and Drums according to Okara's Piano and Drums are musical instruments of __________

  Options:
  A) contradictory tunes
  B) complementary tunes
  C) different cultural milieus
  D) different rhythmic appeals
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1408: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1409: This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
  ''My heart thus pressing-fix'd my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means...'In the lines above, the speaker implies that Options:
  A) his gesture means nothing
  B) he is a pious man
  C) he is being sentimental
  D) his heart is pressing against his face and eye
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1410:

  The atmosphere of a poem has to do with_________

  Options:
  A) Time and Place
  B) Rhythm and Rhyme
  C) Tone and Mood
  D) Versification and Lineation
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  The correct answer is C .