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 11:

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) nemesis
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

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

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 13:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

  Options:
  A) capitalists and the socialists
  B) bourgeoisie and the proteriat
  C) market women and the men
  D) farmers and the consumers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 14: The role of the Storyteller in The Marriage of Anansewa is that of a Options:
  A) bearer of false rumours
  B) trickster
  C) commentator
  D) suiter
  E) Chiefs messenger
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 15:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'On the broken walls,

  Bats hang away from the sun

  Shadows of an ancient stranger

  Cast their presence over our shoulders

  A pathway leads to the abandoned gate.' Mazisi Kunene:The Fearful Ruin

  The dominant mood in the excerpt above is that of

  Options:
  A) exhilaration
  B) pleasure
  C) rage
  D) terror
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 16: Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' can be seen as Options:
  A) total condemnation of human life
  B) lament for the death of the great and powerful
  C) an attack on social inequality
  D) a criticism of the poor and the unambitious
  E) a recognition of the poor and simple life.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 17:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Illusion and reality
  D) Humor and Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 18:

  ''London''I wander thro'' each charter''d streetNear where the charter''d Thames does flow,And mark in every face i meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe

  In every cry of every ManIn every infant''s cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles i hear.

  How the chimney-sweeper''s cryEvery black''ning Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier''s sighRuns in blood down Palace walls.

  But most thro'' midnight streets i hearHow the youthful Harlot''s curse Blasts the new born infant''s tear,And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.The stanza form in ''London'' is referred to as

  Options:
  A) a quartet
  B) a quatrain
  C) a quadruple
  D) quintet
  E) sestet.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 19:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

  Options:
  A) four months
  B) five months
  C) two months
  D) three months
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 20:

  'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

  Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

  The speaker of these words is the father of

  Options:
  A) Bikokolo
  B) Niam
  C) Albert
  D) Medza.
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  The correct answer is D .