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 481: "Since I came to this country I have never seen cocoa as well dried as yours."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the speaker above is Options:
  A) the Catechist
  B) Nua
  C) Nkolo
  D) the Commandant
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 482:

  Use excerpt below to answer questions

  "Now, by yond marble
  heaven,
  In the due reverence of a sacred vow
  I here enrage my words." (Shakespeare's Othello)

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  What incident ignited the excerpt above?

  Options:
  A) the taking of a vow of revenge
  B) Othello's rage about Desdemona's betrayal
  C) Iago's conspiracy with Brabantio to kill Othello
  D) Desdemona and Emilia's discussion on the lost handkerchief
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 483:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The novel is a mixture of

  Options:
  A) fiction and fantasy
  B) the objective and the absurd
  C) pessimism and optimism
  D) the real and the supermatural
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 484:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

  I summon up remembrance of things past,...

  Shakespeare, 'Sonnet XXX'

  The lines above contain the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) a motif
  B) irony
  C) sarcasm
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 485: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (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 Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  The first stanza of Eliot's The Journey of the Magi depicts the
  Options:
  A) increment of fortune for the pilgrims
  B) blind acceptance of faith
  C) hazards of the journey
  D) journey as an influential factor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 486:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The hypocritical character in the play is

  Options:
  A) Montano
  B) lago
  C) Cassio
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 487: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 488: This question is based on General Literary principleMyths differ from legend inn that myths Options:
  A) have more of the historical background and less of the supernatural
  B) are less concerned with moral didacticism
  C) are more concerned with moral didactism
  D) have less of historical background and more of the supernatural
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 489: 'Such drizzling can go on for many days', she said in a dull voice. They both relapsed into silence, making a picture of bereaved children from whom life has suddenly lost warmth, colour, and excitement. There was no fire in the hearth. The mood caught in this scene is one of Options:
  A) excitement
  B) warmth
  C) hopefulness
  D) high spirits
  E) sadness.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 490: A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is Options:
  A) an oxymoron
  B) a parable
  C) an irony
  D) an inversion
  E) a paradox.
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  The correct answer is E .