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 1661:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When a story is told in a song and passed down by word of mouth, it is called

  Options:
  A) a sonnet
  B) an epic
  C) a ballad
  D) a singer's story
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1662:

  The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

  Options:
  A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
  B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
  C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
  D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1663:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'o' deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, Taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law And turned that black word....'

  The play is mostly written in

  Options:
  A) free verse
  B) metres
  C) foot
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1664: In the poem 'Piano AND Drums' Okara uses the drums to symbolize Options:
  A) source of poetic inspiration
  B) traditional African ways of life
  C) the complex rhythms of human life
  D) festivals which are held annually
  E) the noisy pastimes of hunters.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1665: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1666:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero is aptly described in the play as

  Options:
  A) neat
  B) suave
  C) polished
  D) lofty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1667:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

  'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

  In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

  Options:
  A) has wasted all his mother's money
  B) is money
  C) has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
  D) has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1668: This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Vers and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.The title of Herbert's The Pulley is an example of Options:
  A) fable
  B) euphemism
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1669: The episode in which the priestess of Agbala takes Ezinma to the shrine at night is meant to demostrate how Options:
  A) daring Okonkwo is
  B) much the priestess dislikes Okonkwo's family
  C) much concerned for his family Okonkwo is
  D) disrespectful to traditional office holders Umuofia is
  E) rude and unfeeling the priestess is
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1670: Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) denotation
  D) allusion
  E) imitation
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  The correct answer is B .