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 291: One of themes of As You Like It Is Options:
  A) life in the forest
  B) wrestling matches
  C) disguise
  D) the meaning of true love
  E) banishment.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 292:

  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 293: Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' can be seen as Options:
  A) total condemnation of human life
  B) lament for the death of the great and powerful
  C) an attack on social inequality
  D) a criticism of the poor and the unambitious
  E) a recognition of the poor and simple life.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 294: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 295:

  The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.

  In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetitious statements
  B) symbolic reference
  C) biblical allusion
  D) delibrate distortion
  E) hyperbolic comment.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 296: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 297: In Mine Boy Peter Abraham's is of the view that in South Africa Options:
  A) a black and white should live and develop separately
  B) racial harmony is desirable and possible
  C) black should never cooperate with white
  D) racial harmony is merewishful thinking
  E) the conflict between black and white can never end.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 298: In J.P Clark's 'Olokun', the line 'No greater love has a woman' signifies Options:
  A) unrequired love
  B) mutual love
  C) impossible love
  D) erotic love
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 299:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson,R.et al (eds.): New Poetry from African (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ed): A Selection of African Poetry; Adeoti, G: Naked Soles; Hayward, J. (ed); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D. (ed): West African Verse.'awaiting in ambush'

  Ambush in the line above from Adeoti's Ambush symbolises

  Options:
  A) exploit
  B) frustration
  C) danger
  D) pain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 300: The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as Options:
  A) disdainful
  B) suspicious
  C) disrespectful
  D) courteous.
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  The correct answer is A .