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 321:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'If I can fasten but one cup upon him with that which he had drunk tonight already He 'll be as full of quarrel and offence As my young mistress' dog...'

  Shakespeare, Othello

  From the statement above it can be inferred that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) disobedient
  B) quarrelsome
  C) servile
  D) scheming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 322:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  Who is Mr Cole?

  Options:
  A) a black tenant at the first apartment at England
  B) Adah's colleague at the Consulate
  C) Adah's nephew she's forced to live with after Pa's death
  D) Adah's elementary school teacher
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 323: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) secular sentiments
  C) religious sentiments
  D) erotic feelings.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 324: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as Options:
  A) comic relief
  B) rhetoric
  C) anti-climax
  D) climax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 325:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  'It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there

  He ish the one we are yeshpecting '.

  This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) cannot spell correctly
  B) cannot speak English correctly
  C) is a stranger
  D) is very angry
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 326: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) satire
  B) paradox
  C) hyperbole
  D) epigram.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 327:

  'Was it so hard, Achilles,

  So very hard to die?

  Thou knowest and i know not-

  So much the happier am i'

  This verse is taken from a poem written by a soldier at the battle-front. He clearly sees dying in battle as

  Options:
  A) glorious
  B) patriotic
  C) brave and desirable
  D) a good experience
  E) he may be brave but undesirable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 328: This question is based on selection poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  In Milton's On His Blindness, the poet's attitude towards his blindness is one of Options:
  A) anger
  B) sorrow
  C) fortitude
  D) apathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 329: At the end of the poem 'pianos and Drums', the protagonist is best described as Options:
  A) an authentic African
  B) a cultural mulatto
  C) sophisticated African
  D) a cultured youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 330: In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger's office located? Options:
  A) Hammersmith
  B) Soho
  C) Warworth
  D) Richmond
  E) Little Britain.
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  The correct answer is E .