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 911:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Li got more accustomed to her home because she

  Options:
  A) grew a little more religious
  B) had greater hold on her stern father
  C) found greater solace in an outside relationship
  D) became closer to tradition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 912: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for Options:
  A) eighteen months
  B) two decades
  C) twelve years
  D) fourty days
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 913:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The play is essentially about the

  Options:
  A) theft of Mis Neville's trinket box
  B) comedy of errors of one night
  C) incompatibility of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle
  D) love affair between Kate and Marlow
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 914:

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

  The comic in the play is found in the

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot
  B) Miss Hardcastle Marlow main plot two sub-plots
  C) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot and Hasting-Neville sub-plot
  D) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow and Hasting-Neville series of sub-plots
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 915:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; 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 - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  And my children left their peaceful nakedness

  For the uniform of iron and blood'

  In the lines above from David Diop's Loser of Everything' the imagery depicts a displacement of

  Options:
  A) innocence by violence
  B) nature by science
  C) village life by barrack life
  D) the natureal by the artificial
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 916: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
  That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
  Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are Options:
  A) Hamlet's orchard and his crown
  B) young Hamlet and Gertrude
  C) the crown and the queen
  D) Norway and young fortinbras
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 917:

  In a 'Portrait', a poet writes:

  At mankind's feast,i take my place

  In solemn,sanctimonious state,

  And have the air of saying grace

  While i defile the dinner plate.

  The tone of this passage may be described as

  Options:
  A) solemn
  B) self-mocking
  C) dead earnest
  D) serious
  E) angry
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 918:

  'Oshor:...Winds howl forth-howl forth,

  Hold back hold back-is the time- oh

  Endless time-slung in oblivion,

  Make minced meat of your prey.'

  Charity Angya, The Cycle of the Moon.

  The mood captured in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) happiness
  C) indifference
  D) joy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 919: In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the dedicated worker who serves the revolutionary cause to the best of his ability and is Options:
  A) gently consigned to obscurity in the end
  B) justly rewarded in the end.
  C) unfairly, ruthlessly treated in the end
  D) given national honours in the end
  E) allowed a graceful retirement in old age.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 920: Which of the following is a correct definition of the balled? Options:
  A) A climatic episode
  B) An impersonal dramatic piece
  C) An allusive dialogue
  D) A love story told by balled singer
  E) A poem that tells a folk story
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  The correct answer is E .