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 General Literary Principles
  The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as Options:
  A) harmatia
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) epistasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 302:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A form of symbolism in which ideas or abstract qualities are represented in a poem is an

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) allusion
  C) ambiguity
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 303: The subject matter of 'A Troubadour|Traverse'is Options:
  A) suffering and oppression
  B) laughter and happiness
  C) singing and merry making
  D) love for a woman
  E) long journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 304:

  Literature is studied as a subject at school because

  Options:
  A) it exposes students to the realities of life
  B) it provides entertainment
  C) it merely gives additional work to students
  D) it teaches the use of words
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 305:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) ideas
  C) sentiment
  D) prowess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 306: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Mrs.Joan Durbeyfield is portrayed as Options:
  A) reticent and deeply emotional
  B) strong-willed and boisterous
  C) pretentious and calculating
  D) fastidious and overbearing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 307:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 308: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The play reaches reaches the point of denouement Options:
  A) at the family feast
  B) at the reconciliation of the feuding families
  C) when Romeo is informed of Juliet's death
  D) when Romeo kills Paris at the tomb
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 309: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A poet's use of regular rhythm is known as Options:
  A) allegory
  B) assonance
  C) metre
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 310:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .