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 491: Pip's Flippant remarks concerning the tombstones in the opening chapter of Great Expectations indicate Options:
  A) his longing for death
  B) the child's inability to understand
  C) his yearning for his parents
  D) his fascination for inscriptions on stonework.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 492:

  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 493:

  'A dungeon horrible, one all sides round'

  As one great furnace flamed, yet for those flames

  No light, but rather darkness visible'.

  The phrase 'darkness visible' in the above lines is an example of

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) oxymoron
  D) litotes.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 494:

  '...A man who calls his kinsmen to feast does not do so to save them from staving. they all have food in their houses. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.'

  In this passage, as in many other parts of Things Fall Apart, Achebe celebrates

  Options:
  A) living according to nature
  B) the spirit of communal living
  C) the ancestral spirit
  D) the virtures of self reliance
  E) traditional festivals
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 495:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  The persona in Kassam's Maji Maji represents the

  Options:
  A) warriors
  B) Germans
  C) Mzee
  D) listeners
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 496:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Where does the play takes place

  Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Aunt's place
  C) In Ofosu's place
  D) On the street
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 497: THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to Options:
  A) serve as a constract to Romeo's
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) persuade Romeo to forget Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 498:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  In what type of play would the playwright introduce a comic to relieve tension already built up?

  Options:
  A) Farce
  B) Comedy
  C) Opera
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 499: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The chorus in the prologue of the play is essentially meant to Options:
  A) foreshadow the play
  B) highlight the characters
  C) estimate the actions
  D) introduce the play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 500:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  Melodrama is a theatrical performance in which

  Options:
  A) the serious is treated in a satirical way
  B) subordination of characterization to plot occurs
  C) music and dance predominate
  D) evil triumphs over good
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  The correct answer is A .