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 301:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You amble on

  We can no longer

  Wait for nature's course

  We must deliver

  You

  With

  Force'

  Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 302:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  "Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew No more of

  Options:
  A) Travelling
  B) Sick
  C) Dying
  D) Eloping
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 303:

  A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

  Options:
  A) harrangue
  B) discourse
  C) monologue
  D) saga
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 304: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.The relationships of Nnaife family are Options:
  A) humiliation and disagreement
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) poverty and hunger
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 305:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) paradox
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 306: The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night . Options:
  A) when Banquo was murdered
  B) before macbeth was killed
  C) when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
  D) when macbeth went to see the witches
  E) when duncan was murdered.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 307:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 308:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder'is a prophetic poem because it

  Options:
  A) correctly predicts the end of those who abuse power
  B) predicts the coming of military rulers
  C) pictures the return of politicians to the scene
  D) picture the poet going to hell
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 309:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is

  Options:
  A) take prostitution
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abandon their husbands
  D) abandon their children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 310:

  'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

  And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic dialogue
  B) monologue
  C) mistaken identity
  D) dramatic irony
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is D .