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 2021: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Limerick is a light verse which consist of five lines that are Options:
  A) anapestic
  B) trochaic
  C) spondaic
  D) dactylic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2022:

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

  Come away, come away, death,

  And in sad cypress let me be laid...

  In the lines above, the character is

  Options:
  A) expressing his unhappiness about death
  B) expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  C) lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  D) wishing for death to come
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2023:

  'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

  The narrator here is full of

  Options:
  A) gloom
  B) fears
  C) doubts
  D) cheer
  E) uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2024:

  This question is on Literary Appreciation

  '... Not a few of us ended our application letters like this:. If you are kind enough to accommodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my disposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...'Yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job.'

  Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) derisive
  B) ironic
  C) melancholic
  D) harsh
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2025:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2026:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2027:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2028: Animal Farm is a fable illustrating the inevitable degeneration of revolutionary ideals. According to the novel, this degeneration occurs because Options:
  A) social equality, the goal of such idealism, is actually undersirable
  B) revolutionary ideals are dreamed by blood-thirsty individuals
  C) man's greedy individualistic nature always subverts the realization of ideals
  D) revolutionary ideals are inimical to progress
  E) animals are the wrong characters to illustrate man's weaknesses.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2029:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero's opening speech in the is a

  Options:
  A) soliloquy
  B) monologue
  C) narrative
  D) confession
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2030: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .