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 451: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Genres of literature aptly describes Options:
  A) tradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
  B) ode, elegy, sonnet
  C) short story, novel, autobiography
  D) poetry, prose , drama
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 452: The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is Options:
  A) Benvolio
  B) Tybalt
  C) Paris
  D) Mercutio
  E) Juliet's nurse
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 453: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for Options:
  A) swallows
  B) pipistrello
  C) sparrows
  D) owls
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 454: In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes Options:
  A) arrogance
  B) childishness
  C) intellectualism
  D) ignorance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 455: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play? Options:
  A) It is not good to be over -ambitious
  B) A determined wife is a curse to the husband
  C) Power is sweet but always over-used
  D) Every evil is punishable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 456: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The hoe is her barber'
  The line above is an example of Options:
  A) mtaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) personification
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 457:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  A major irony in the Henchard-Farfrae relationship is that

  Options:
  A) Farfrae's arrival spells Henchard's doom
  B) they employ each other
  C) they disagree over Abel Whittle
  D) the friendship ends too soon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 458:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

  Conceived new truths.

  Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

  But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

  These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi

  Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

  Options:
  A) warfare
  B) life
  C) bloodshed
  D) conquest
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 459: This Question is based on General Literacy principles and Literacy Appreciations. A poem used to express grief on the occasion of someone's death is _______? Options:
  A) elergy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 460:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals

  Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the prophet
  C) Jero's house
  D) Chume
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  The correct answer is B .