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: Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by ________ Options:
  A) movement from serious to the light-hearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1582:

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) formal and elaborate style and humour
  C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1583:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1584:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The speech is made by

  Options:
  A) Titubi role-playing Moremi
  B) Niniola role-playing Titubi
  C) Mama Kayode role-playing Baba
  D) Molade role-playing Marshal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1585: In The Victims, the two old women play the role of Options:
  A) guardians of tradition
  B) eavesdroppers
  C) witches
  D) chorus
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1586:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the triumvirate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jessie Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer,Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1587:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  Which of the following could be applicable to all genres?

  Options:
  A) Symbolism
  B) Rhythm
  C) Action
  D) Narration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1588:

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

  'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'

  This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

  Options:
  A) admiration
  B) mockery
  C) bitterness
  D) alarm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1589:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  '...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

  In the moon-steeped ponds;

  There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

  Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

  Dream suggest that

  Options:
  A) even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  B) nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  C) there is harmony in nature
  D) there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1590:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .