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 891:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 892:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' Old father, old artificer

  Bear me now and ever in good stead''

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce.

  The word 'artificer' describes

  Options:
  A) a sage
  B) a craftsman
  C) a magician
  D) an artificial person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 893:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mrs. Hard: ..Anybody that looks in his face may

  see he's consumptive.

  Hard: Ay, if growing too fat be one of

  the symptoms.

  Mrs. Hard: He coughs sometimes,

  Hard: Yes, when his liquor goes the wrong way

  Mrs. Hard: I'm actually afraid of his lungs.

  Hard: And truly so am I;...

  What takes place immediately after this brief exchange?

  Options:
  A) Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle exit
  B) Tony walks across the stage
  C) There is a knocking at the door
  D) Kate enters begging for calm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 894:

  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)

  ---

  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 895: Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar because he Options:
  A) knew that Caesar was ambitious
  B) was a great lover of freedom
  C) was made to believe that Caesar was ambitious
  D) respected Casca and had a high opinion on Cassius
  E) was greatly loved by the Romans.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 896:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa;Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  '... It is not yet dawn

  And we wake from one nightmara

  To another.'

  In these lines from Ojaide's The Owl Wake Us', the mood is that of a

  Options:
  A) terrifying dream
  B) seemingly endless night
  C) vicious cycle of oppression
  D) persona's experience
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 897:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 898: 'O murderous slumber! Layest thou thy laden mace upon my boy, that plays thee must. The quoted passage is an example of Options:
  A) memorization
  B) personification
  C) simile
  D) apostrophe
  E) allusion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 899:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink,'

  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

  The dominant device in this extract is

  Options:
  A) progressive repetition
  B) progressive amplification
  C) bold contrast
  D) rhyetorical emphasis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 900: 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 .