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 101: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 102:

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

  The Dorothy of the play is

  Options:
  A) Tony Lumpkin's mother
  B) Young Marlow's mother
  C) Miss Neville's mother
  D) Kate, Hardcastle's daughter
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 103:

  Adeoti's Ambush may be best described as____________

  Options:
  A) Prosaic
  B) Lyrical
  C) Analogical
  D) Metaphorical
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 104: The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth Options:
  A) death and burial
  B) man's mortality
  C) the changes in seasons
  D) the propitiation of ancestors
  E) the falling od dew-drops.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 105: Olivia hated Orlando because Orlando Options:
  A) defeacted charles in wrestling contest
  B) was in love with Rosalind
  C) was preferred by the people to himself
  D) was more educated than himself
  E) ran away from home
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Soyinka's depiction of Brother Jero in the play is

  Options:
  A) literal
  B) graphic
  C) sentimental
  D) symbolic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 107:

  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 108:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  'The Fulani Creation Story' shows that

  Options:
  A) the world came about by a series of chance happenings
  B) the world was created in three days
  C) a logic of cause-and-effect underlies all creation
  D) death came into the world when man set himself up as God's rival
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 109:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Yaremi's only son is______?

  Options:
  A) Alani
  B) Wande
  C) Olode
  D) Deyo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 110:

  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 .