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 2041:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  The marriage of Adah and Francis collapses because of

  Options:
  A) Adah's unifaithfulness to Francis
  B) the influence of British culture
  C) Adah's desire for personal fulfilment
  D) external pressures on the couple
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2042: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2043:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  '...princes master their feelings to fulfil their duties 'Others' bend their heads and, in silence, accept a destiny that oppresses them. That, briefly put, is the internal ordering of our society, with its absurd divisions....'

  In the above excerpt from her letter to Mawdo Ba, Aissatou sees society as

  Options:
  A) benefiting the ruling classes
  B) unequal and unjust
  C) oppressing the working classes
  D) giving every person his just deserts
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2044:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) caricature
  C) burlesque
  D) satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2045: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The author successfully conveys his message through Options:
  A) interior monologue
  B) comedy of manners
  C) satirical performances
  D) comedy of errors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2046: This question is based on S.I Osammor''s The Triumph of the Water Lily.The metaphor of the Water Lily'' in the novel is indicative of Options:
  A) the tragic demise of Odibe
  B) death as the finality of man''s experience
  C) victory over tribulation
  D) the tragic demise of Nkem
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2047: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play? Options:
  A) It is not good to be over -ambitious
  B) A determined wife is a curse to the husband
  C) Power is sweet but always over-used
  D) Every evil is punishable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2048: The dominant attitude in T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the magi's is Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) total satisfaction
  C) ambivalence
  D) disgust
  E) pessimism.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2049:

  A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) eulogy
  C) premiere
  D) anthology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2050:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate, Hardcastle's daughter, agrees to her father's choice of a husband for her but is critical of the

  Options:
  A) mother's non-participation in the choice
  B) long notice given her of the suitor's arrival
  C) custom which allows her father to choose for her
  D) suitor's reserved and bashful nature
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  The correct answer is D .