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 91:

  The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

  Options:
  A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
  B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
  C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
  D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 92: The narrator in Mission to Kala is Options:
  A) Mongo Beti
  B) Medza
  C) Mama
  D) Niam
  E) Zambo.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 93:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily

  The preoccupation of the novel is

  Options:
  A) the life and times of Julian Odili
  B) Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
  C) the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
  D) the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 94: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties? Options:
  A) An inner tube of a bicycle
  B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
  C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
  D) A bottle of gin
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 95:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 96: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life's spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that Options:
  A) life is full of care
  B) there can't be life without stive
  C) life is worthwhile without care
  D) strive makes life worth living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 97:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 1 is ________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Alliteration
  C) Litotes
  D) Personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 98: Based on George Orwell's Ninety Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Love is concerned with Options:
  A) peace and freedom
  B) torture and pain
  C) joy and peace
  D) hatred and pain
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 99:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses

  The tone of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) interrogative
  C) persuasive
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 100:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Bigger kills Mary due to______?

  Options:
  A) Fear
  B) Hatred
  C) Envy
  D) Distrust
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  The correct answer is A .