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 1711:

  This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  '... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'

  Who made the above statement and to whom?

  Options:
  A) Macduff to Ross
  B) Malcolm to Macduff
  C) Malcolm to Ross
  D) Macduff to Malcolm.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1712:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

  Iyase's entreaty comes when

  Options:
  A) the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  B) the whitemen attack Benin
  C) Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  D) Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1713:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

  'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) Ogeyi
  B) Alice
  C) Ayo
  D) Mrs Obi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1714:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The recurrent nightmares in Ojaide's 'The Owl Wakes Us' suggest

  Options:
  A) a dreamful existence
  B) anxieties destroying peaceful sleep
  C) repression in governance
  D) broken promises
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1715:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  In what type of play would the playwright introduce a comic to relieve tension already built up?

  Options:
  A) Farce
  B) Comedy
  C) Opera
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1716: This question is based on General Literary principleMyths differ from legend inn that myths Options:
  A) have more of the historical background and less of the supernatural
  B) are less concerned with moral didacticism
  C) are more concerned with moral didactism
  D) have less of historical background and more of the supernatural
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1717:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1718:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Where does the play takes place

  Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Aunt's place
  C) In Ofosu's place
  D) On the street
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1719: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to Options:
  A) the thought police
  B) individuals
  C) the government
  D) the party
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1720:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .