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 261: "Behold her, single in the field
  You solitary Highland Lass!
  Reaping and singing, by herself
  Stop here, or gently pass!
  Alone she cuts and blinds the gram,
  And sings a melancholy strain,
  O listen! For the Vale profound
  Is overflowing with the sound.
  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of The Solitary Reaper above is Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) alxabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 262:

  "I came down the step with my pitcher

  And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he

  Was at the trough before me."These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the

  Options:
  A) snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
  B) snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
  C) snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
  D) poet is terrified of the snake
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 263:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 264: This question is based on William Shakespeare'' s Twelfth Night.The traditional verse from of speech as dialogue in Twelfth Night is used to symbolize the Options:
  A) impressiveness of the character
  B) distinction between verse and prose
  C) function of poetry in the play
  D) traditionlity of the play
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 265:

  The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

  Options:
  A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
  B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
  C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
  D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 266:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breast I sucked is gone to the worms, 'Oculi, Orphan'. These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 267:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  Tanure Ojaide's The Owl Wakes Us' portrays a society that is

  Options:
  A) unstable
  B) hunted by the owl
  C) gripped with fear
  D) peaceful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 268:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The flat character in a literary work

  Options:
  A) is the same as the round character
  B) cannot be found in an allegory
  C) is capable of growing
  D) always embodies a quality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 269: Most of the information in the Trial of Brother Jero is conveyed when Brother Jero speaks to himself in dramatic monologues otherwise known as a Options:
  A) stream of consciousness technique
  B) personal conversation
  C) dialogue
  D) narration
  E) soliloquy.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 270:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .