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 681: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, 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: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.The theme of Cope's Sonnet VII is Options:
  A) art of poetry
  B) adventure
  C) contempt for literature
  D) isolation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 682:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 683:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

  Drink

  Life to the lees, all times I have

  Enjoyed

  Greatly, have suffered greatly"

  A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) is determined to suffer
  B) has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) will cure his sour mood
  D) will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 684:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'The woman whose breasts I sucked is gone to the worms'.

  Oculi, 'Orphan'

  These lines illustrate the use of

  Options:
  A) sadism
  B) sophism
  C) satire
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 685:

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) three of the actors
  B) a few of the actors
  C) an exclusive social class in the play
  D) all the actors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 686:

  A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.

  The passage is referring to a

  Options:
  A) religious preacher who saves sinful souls
  B) physician who cures diseases of the sole
  C) workman who repears shoes
  D) trader who prevents bad sales
  E) trader who cheats customers during sales.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 687:

  "Thou loosest labour

  As easy may'st thou the in trenchant air

  With thy keen sword impress,..."Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the confidence above derives from the fact that

  Options:
  A) the air cannot be cut
  B) it is futile to cut the air with a sword
  C) no man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth
  D) Macduff wastes his efforts fighting Macbeth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 688:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 689: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to Options:
  A) the thought police
  B) individuals
  C) the government
  D) the party
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 690:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .