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 1581:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________

  Options:
  A) he prefers lago
  B) Othello is a moor
  C) Rodgerigo woos her first
  D) Desdemona is too young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1582:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): 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.):West African Verse

  The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
  B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
  C) the danger in the driving profession
  D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1583: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.in Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation,the persona is concerned with the Options:
  A) people's struggle for survival
  B) intolerance of the new generation
  C) celebration of African tradition
  D) criticism of modern tradition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1584:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

  Options:
  A) horse
  B) piece of land
  C) source of water
  D) farmland
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1585:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1586: To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by Options:
  A) Banqo and his son
  B) two murderers
  C) lady Macbeth
  D) lady Macbeth and a servant
  E) Banqo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1587:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which depicts the adventures of the main character who is usually something of a rogue is a

  Options:
  A) comedy
  B) fable
  C) prose
  D) picaresque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1588: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1589:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!

  You are my mortal enemy'.

  The figurative name for the manner in which nightfall is directly addressed as though present in Mtshali's 'Nightfall inSoweto' is

  Options:
  A) an ode
  B) allusion
  C) apostrophe
  D) dramatic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1590:

  ... may be said to be a critical subject of concern in Blake's "School Boy"

  Options:
  A) adventurism
  B) futility of life and time
  C) moral rectitude
  D) academic development
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  The correct answer is D .