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 1881: In The World is Too Much With Us', Wordsworth wishes that people could Options:
  A) become pagans
  B) appreciate the beauty of Nature more
  C) go to see Proteus and Triton
  D) become part of Nation
  E) give their 'hearts aways
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1882:

  I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly. A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) Is determined to suffer
  B) Has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) Will cure his sour mood
  D) Will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1883: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as Options:
  A) climax
  B) tragic flaw
  C) comic relief
  D) terse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1884: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Romeo is evicted to__________because he__________ Options:
  A) Mantua, fights Tybalt in a street duel
  B) Capulet's party, kills Tybalt in a street duel
  C) Mantua, fights and kills Tybalt in a street duel
  D) Mantua, kills Paris in a street duel.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1885:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1886:

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

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1887:

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

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1888:

  Peter Abraham's Mine Boy can be described as a

  Options:
  A) regional novel
  B) detective novel
  C) romatic novel
  D) novel of social critism
  E) historical novel.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1889: The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) primal youth of the African
  C) beauty of the Concerto
  D) the decay of African Civilization.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1890:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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 phrase 'location indifferent' in 'Telephone Conversation' conveys Wole Soyinka's

  Options:
  A) non-concern for space
  B) willingness to take an apartment anywhere
  C) critical need for accommodation
  D) awareness of the reluctance ofthe landlady
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  The correct answer is A .