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 2061:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by

  Options:
  A) a famale prophet
  B) Desdemona's maid
  C) Othello's mother
  D) Othello's lover.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2062:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

  Either withdraw unto some private place,

  Or reason coldly of your grievances,

  Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

  This appeal is made by

  Options:
  A) Romeo to Mercutio
  B) Benvolio to Tybalt
  C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
  D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2063:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) denotation
  C) connotation
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2064: Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) denotation
  D) allusion
  E) imitation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2065:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  The subject matter of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the road
  B) death
  C) the vehicle
  D) the driver
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2066: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2067:

  This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

  "I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) imagery
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2068:

  And when you trudge on one horny Pads Gullied

  Like the soles of modern shoes Pads that even

  Jiggers cannot conquerHorny pads in the lines above is a reference to a

  Options:
  A) sole of a pauper
  B) sole of a soldier
  C) policeman
  D) madman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2069:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  The theme of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the taxi driver's contemplation of the vehicle as the likely cause of his death
  B) that a driver's death must surely be caused by his vehicle
  C) the danger in the driving profession
  D) that roads are death-traps for drivers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2070: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is Options:
  A) exploitation and cruelty
  B) retributive justice
  C) class segregation
  D) totalitarian dictatorship
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  The correct answer is D .