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 1241:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it, I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose.

  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor.'

  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) rejection
  B) anger
  C) protest
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1242:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The turn of events in the novel shows that the novelist is

  Options:
  A) iconoclastic
  B) fatalistic
  C) rhetorical
  D) optimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1243:

  'Serrating down your back and front

  Like beak of the sword-fish,

  And both your ears, notched

  As a bondsman to this house...'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) metaphor
  E) verismilitude.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1244: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair The statement above characterizes. Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1245:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  When does the play open and close?

  Options:
  A) In the afternoon
  B) At midnight
  C) In the morning
  D) In the evening
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1246:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The central theme of the play is the

  Options:
  A) ills of modern days
  B) clash between tradition and modernity
  C) problem of courtship
  D) conflict between the old and the young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1247:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism isis better than aniamalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyon is equal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1248:

  A situation where an actor addresses the audience without the other actors hearing him is called

  Options:
  A) Soliloquy
  B) Chorus
  C) Aside
  D) Solo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1249:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) peripeteia
  C) purgation
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1250: A plot in a literary work is about Options:
  A) character delineation
  B) casual arrangement of events
  C) resolution of conflicts
  D) law of poetic justic
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  The correct answer is B .