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 141:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) hero
  B) opposition
  C) villain
  D) heroine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Illusion and reality
  D) Humor and Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 143: In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop expresses his Options:
  A) hope that African will triumph over colonialism
  B) hatred of Africans
  C) affections of the colonial masters
  D) love of forced romances
  E) hatred of women.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 144:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's. The old Man and the Medal.

  The disagreement between Mvondo and Nti centres on the latter's claim to have

  Options:
  A) eaten the entire entrails of sheep
  B) eate more than his share of the food
  C) been in a whiteman's office
  D) assisted Meka in getting the medal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 145: this Question is based on J.P. Clark''s The Wives'' Revolt.The plot of the play is lineal as reflected in the Options:
  A) episodic nature of the play
  B) movement of the women
  C) arrangement of the events in the play
  D) progression of the argument of Okoro
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 146:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 147:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Lllusion and reality
  D) Humour and tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 148: In the poem 'Night Soyinka considers nightfall as Options:
  A) welcome and totally pleasant
  B) unwelcome and unpleasant
  C) dangerous and uninviting
  D) seductive and threatening
  E) beautiful and wholesome.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 149:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An iambic metrical foot consists of

  Options:
  A) an unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
  B) a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
  C) an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
  D) a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 150:

  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as

  Options:
  A) Catastasis
  B) Catharsis
  C) protasis
  D) Epitasis
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  The correct answer is D .