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 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 2062:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) premonition
  C) harmatia
  D) empathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2063: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) the world of demon lovers
  C) the river Alph
  D) a sunless sea
  E) sunny spots of greenery.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2064: A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an Options:
  A) epithet
  B) epigram
  C) invective
  D) impression
  E) analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2065: Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because Options:
  A) he was hungry
  B) he was greedy
  C) he was afraid
  D) he thought they were wild
  E) they refuse to give him food.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2066:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  ''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) authoritative
  B) mocking
  C) appreciative
  D) scathing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2067: The 'Myth of the Bagre' is recited at the Options:
  A) funeral of young men
  B) funeral of young women
  C) funeral of old men and woman
  D) coming of age of young men and women
  E) return of the ancestors.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2068:

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

  What special function does Ramatoulaye's diary perform?

  Options:
  A) It is a record of her personal experiences
  B) It brings succour to her in distress
  C) It helps her understand current events
  D) It aids her memory of pst events
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2069:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'And why must we be sad When the messiahs are with us to hound us and butt-gun us into greater tomorrow.'

  Odia Ofeimun, ' The Messiahs'

  The tone of the lines above is

  Options:
  A) satiric
  B) sarcastic
  C) indicting
  D) self-pitying
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2070: This question is based on William Shakesphere's Othello."...Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds. By what you see them act. Is there not charms. By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abused?....." The speaker in the excerpt above addresses _______? Options:
  A) Othello
  B) Lago
  C) Brabantio
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is C .