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 151: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 152:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The play is built on

  Options:
  A) mistaken identities
  B) sentiments and realities
  C) comedy of errors
  D) conttrasts of characters and ideas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 153: Kenneth Kaunda's Zambia Shall Be Free is a non-fictional work because Options:
  A) it is about politics
  B) it has no characters
  C) it evokes no feelings
  D) it is not written by a novelist
  E) it deals with real life events
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 154: A 'gentleman' in the sense in which it is used in Great Expectations is Options:
  A) a man of wealth
  B) a chivalrous young man
  C) an educated man of some means
  D) a man who has inherited a fortune
  E) a man who lives in a big city.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 155: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.'In any case with the help of the loyal armed forces thank God, the incipient revolt had been quickly mastered, and the recalcitrant farmers had been finally persuaded back into fulfilling their patriotic duties of starving in order that the rulers might live and belch'. Kolera Koleji by Femi Osofisan The two most prominent weapons of satire in this passage are Options:
  A) understatement and hyperbole
  B) irony and metaphor
  C) simile and personification
  D) irony and understatement
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 156:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  Caliph Attahiru's dream about heavy smoke on the battlefield and the ancestors passing the flag of Islam from one head to another serves as

  Options:
  A) a flshback
  B) a prophecy
  C) foreshadowing
  D) a reverie
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 157: In Oswald Mtshali's 'nightfall in Soweto', Night represents Options:
  A) the oppression of whites by the Africans
  B) white people's fear by the Africans
  C) the black victimization of white people
  D) the oppression of the Africans by the white people
  E) the rebelion of the white people
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 158:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

  Options:
  A) reflect reality
  B) be good actors
  C) justify their actions
  D) be creative on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 159: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky:
  So was it when my life began
  So be it now I am a man;
  So be it when I shall grow old,
  Or let me die!
  And I could wish my day to be
  Bound each to each by natural piety'.
  My heart leaps up by W. Worthsworth.
  The above poem essentially deals with the theme of Options:
  A) old age
  B) childhood innocence
  C) beauty of the rainbow
  D) fatherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 160:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  Othello kills himself with a

  Options:
  A) bottle
  B) sword
  C) gun
  D) knife
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  The correct answer is B .