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 31:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 32: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 33: "...He who sharpened the edge of hearts...."In Kunene's To The Soldier "Hero" is Options:
  A) a soldier
  B) a swordsman
  C) a blacksmith
  D) an artist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 34:

  This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  '... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'

  Who made the above statement and to whom?

  Options:
  A) Macduff to Ross
  B) Malcolm to Macduff
  C) Malcolm to Ross
  D) Macduff to Malcolm.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 35:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Ocol rejects the old type.

  He is in love with a modern woman

  He is in love with a beautiful girl

  Who speaks English.'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  The writer of the lines above

  Options:
  A) ridicules Ocol's value judgment
  B) is critical of the modern woman
  C) appraises people who speak English
  D) shuns the old type of woman
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 36:

  'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

  Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

  The speaker of these words is the father of

  Options:
  A) Bikokolo
  B) Niam
  C) Albert
  D) Medza.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37: The epilogue in a play refers to the Options:
  A) conflict in the play
  B) tail-piece
  C) opening chorus
  D) dramatic action.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 38: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Prospero is portrayed as a man who is Options:
  A) eager to conquer the world
  B) full of mistrust for everybody
  C) more interested in studying than in governance
  D) dependent on the spirits of his survival
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 39:

  'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  It seems she hangs upon the check of night

  As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'

  Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented

  Options:
  A) in contrast to the dark night
  B) as a source of envy to all
  C) in terms of riches
  D) as being unparalleled in the kingdom.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 40: In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of Options:
  A) a particular immortal Bird
  B) all nightingales
  C) artistic expression
  D) philosophical statement
  E) the nightingale Ruth heard
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  The correct answer is A .