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 41:

  'They have tied me to a stake:I cannot fly, But bear like i must fight the course'.

  Macbeth here is represented as

  Options:
  A) confident and arrogant
  B) pitiable and evil
  C) pitiable but courageous
  D) pitiable and fearful
  E) merry and confident
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 42: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi's The New Man.The mob in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a monster and a snake
  B) a bad group
  C) demonstrators
  D) fighters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 43:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  When two statements or comparisons are apparently contradictory, we have an example of

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) paradox
  C) contrast
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 44:

  Brutus: This is sleepy tune. O murd'rous slumber!

  Layest thou the leaden mace upon my boy,

  That plays the music? Gentle knave, good night.

  'Gentle knave' refers to

  Options:
  A) Lucius
  B) Cassius
  C) Portia
  D) Messala
  E) Lucuis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 45: Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal? Options:
  A) Decius Brutus
  B) Lucius
  C) Cassius
  D) Portia
  E) Octavius.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 46: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  In the novel, the most prominent from of literature used is Options:
  A) myth
  B) drama
  C) poetry
  D) folktale
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 47: In The Narrow Path Nani is transferred very frequently because he is Options:
  A) a trained teacher
  B) an untrained teacher
  C) a lazy worker
  D) a devoted and hardworking teacher
  E) a poor man's son
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 48: This question is based on �Literary Principles.A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called Options:
  A) exodium
  B) isocohen
  C) metonymy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 49: The tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Abiku is Options:
  A) arrogant and cynical
  B) mysterious and cunning
  C) understanding but cynical
  D) kind and thoughtful.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .