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 1471:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.;....I am in blood

  Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.

  Who spoke these words?

  Options:
  A) Lady Macbeth
  B) The fiest murderer
  C) Macbeth
  D) THE SECOND NURDERER
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1472:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  JERO: In that case, since, Brother Chume,

  your wife seems such a wicked, willful sinner,

  I think ....

  CHUME: Yes, Holy One...?

  JERO: You must take her home tonight...

  Jero concedes to Chume taking his wife home and beating her in order to

  Options:
  A) keep his secret secret
  B) get the beating out of the way quickly
  C) enable jero get into his house
  D) keep Chume's loyalty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1473: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as Options:
  A) characterization
  B) allegory
  C) metaphor
  D) paralellism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1474:

  "...Let the greying day grow,

  ...let the evening horns blow,

  ...let the melting mountains go...'The repetition of these lines from Atukwei Okai's

  "Sunset Sonata"

  Options:
  A) is for emphasis for the main ideas
  B) imbues the poem with lyrical qualities
  C) summarizes the major themes of the poem
  D) shows that the poem is truly a dirge.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1475: Who accompanied Kongi on his retreat Options:
  A) Oba Danlola
  B) No one
  C) Seyi
  D) Daodu
  E) The secretary
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1476:
  From the novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four

  The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

  Room 101 symbolises a place of________???

  Options:
  A) rest
  B) fun
  C) humiliation
  D) torture
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1477: There is a devil in me that wants things i cannot get' The speaker in the novel Mine boy' is Options:
  A) Lena
  B) Drunk Liz
  C) Malsey
  D) Paddy
  E) Eliza.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1478: The role of the Storyteller in The Marriage of Anansewa is that of a Options:
  A) bearer of false rumours
  B) trickster
  C) commentator
  D) suiter
  E) Chiefs messenger
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1479:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'If it is true that the world talks too much

  Then let's all keep quiet

  And hear the eloquence

  Of silence'

  If it is True' by Richard Ntini

  One striking device used by the poet above is

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) contrast
  C) alliteration
  D) end-rhyme
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1480:

  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 and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  In Clark's Agbor Dancer, the drum is central to the message because it

  Options:
  A) portrays the drummer as an expert
  B) reminds the poet of his cultural roots
  C) provides the rhythm for the dancer
  D) draws the spectators to the dancing arena
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  The correct answer is B .