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 Shakespheare's Othello“ ...Fathers, from hence trust not daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?. ” In the excerpt it is implied that daughters are Options:
  A) lascivious
  B) petty
  C) pretentious
  D) thieves
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1472:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...

  Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

  In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) resignation
  C) fear
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1473:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1474:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '

  The lines above in the play are delivered by

  Options:
  A) Kate
  B) Tony
  C) Marlow
  D) Constance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1475: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1476:

  The writer of a poem is called__________?

  Options:
  A) Author
  B) Poet
  C) Writer
  D) Narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1477:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The witnesses to the tears in the novelare

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1478:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A figure of speech in which an absent person or an object is addressed as if present is referred to as

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) apostrophe
  C) elegy
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1479:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1480: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) ellipsis
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  The correct answer is A .