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 721:

  A short poem that expresses an idea in a clever way is called _____

  Options:
  A) An Epigram
  B) A Limerick
  C) An Ode
  D) A Lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 722: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionWho impregnated Aloho? Options:
  A) The Commissioner
  B) Chief Haladu
  C) Justice Odili
  D) Inspector Inaku
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 723:

  '... like some fish

  Doped out of the deep

  I have bobbed up bellywise

  From stream of sleep'.

  The above lines from 'Night Rain' are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker

  Options:
  A) drank like a fishb
  B) took a heavy dose of sleeping pills
  C) slept with his belly facing upwards
  D) dreamt of fish in deep streams
  E) was suddenly roused from sleep.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 724:

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

  'And the name died before the man.'From the statement above in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young, what happens to the athlata?

  Options:
  A) He comes to a disgreaceful end
  B) He loses his medial to another
  C) He dies eventually
  D) He dies prematurely
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 725:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 726:

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

  One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) creation and resolution of conflicts
  B) sale of Henchard's wife
  C) exploration of comic plot
  D) wheat business in Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 727: George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was Options:
  A) a tricker
  B) an exploiter
  C) a christain
  D) an orator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 728: An allegory is a story Options:
  A) in which people or things or events have another meaning
  B) which aims at teaching a moral lesson
  C) in which allegations are made about the characters
  D) told in verse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 729:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 730: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as Options:
  A) assistant to Sycorax
  B) leader of the spirits
  C) Prospero's daughter
  D) Alonso's wife
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  The correct answer is B .