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 1701:

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

  Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her

  Options:
  A) rusting away in the countryside
  B) need to get the latest fashions in London
  C) need to buy the best polish in London
  D) boring life in the countryside
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1702:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A couplet refers to

  Options:
  A) two successive lines of rhyming verse
  B) two stanzas that cannot stand alone
  C) four irregular verses in stanzas
  D) poetry that is actd on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1703:

  The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

  Options:
  A) omniscient narrator
  B) participatory narrator
  C) objective narrator
  D) subjective narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1704: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.The constant companion of Nnaife's family are Options:
  A) poverty and hunger
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) disagreemnt and humiliation
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1705: These questions are based on general Literary principlesA character who re-enacts familiar experiences that readers easily identify with is Options:
  A) round character
  B) stock character
  C) static character
  D) flat character
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1706: This question is based on �Literary Principles.A literary work which imitates another in a distorted form is called Options:
  A) exodium
  B) isocohen
  C) metonymy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1707: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs Options:
  A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
  B) the night before his fishing expedition
  C) in his house
  D) at the end of the book
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1708: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1709: The 'Settings in a novel refers to Options:
  A) the point in the story where we first encounter the main character
  B) the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
  C) the home country of the hero or heroine
  D) the location where the main event in the novel takes place
  E) all the various places mentioned in the novel.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1710:

  Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered She knows how every living thing was fathered,

  She calculates the climate of each star,

  She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care

  Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or featheredThe dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
  E) simile.
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  The correct answer is B .