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 1411:

  'A clear, frosty night. Unusual brilliance and perfection of everything visible. Earth, sky, moon, and stars, all seem cemented, riveted together by the first. Shadows of trees be across the paths, so sharp that they seemed carved in relief. You keep thinking you see dark figures endlessly cross the road at various places'.

  This passage achieves its beautiful effect partly because of its repeated appeal to the sense of

  Options:
  A) taste
  B) touch
  C) sight
  D) smell
  E) hearing
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1412:

  Which character made the following statement in Macbeth?:

  This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

  Unto our gentle senses'

  Options:
  A) Macbeth
  B) Duncan
  C) Lady Macbeth
  D) Macduff
  E) Lennox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1413:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  Catherine's natural looks portray her as a

  Options:
  A) sophisticated lady
  B) soldier's wife
  C) mountain farmer's wife
  D) business woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1414:

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

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1415: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1416: The difficulties of his early life taught Kaunda the value of Options:
  A) self interest
  B) economy
  C) changing jobs
  D) self help
  E) political protest
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1417: 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.
  'Love and loveless hate' and 'Love lusterless word' in Lenrie Peters 'She Came in Silken Drapes ] suggest that Options:
  A) love is a meaningless word
  B) joy and sadness often mingle
  C) love is forever sweet
  D) love breeds hate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1418:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

  The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

  Options:
  A) Hannah
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Aunt
  D) Mrs. B
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1419: In literary devices, pun deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arrangement of words placing two opposite phrases Answer
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1420:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .