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:

  An act of speaking ones thought aloud by oneself, regardless of any hearer, in a play is known as____________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) fable
  C) comedy
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1702: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.According to the novel, Southerners deprive the Negroes of Options:
  A) being more educated
  B) accommodation
  C) good job
  D) the rights to vote
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1703:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) all the actors
  B) three of the actors
  C) a few of the actors
  D) an exclusive social class in the play
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1704: The protagonist of a story is generally Options:
  A) the protest made by the principle character against his adversaries
  B) the principle character of the story
  C) the theme of the story
  D) one of the minor characters in the story
  E) the protest made by a character against the hero
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1705:

  That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) sadness
  C) joy
  D) triumph
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1706:

  'I am jealous and passonate
  Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
  J.P Clark: Olokun
  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) paradox
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1707:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child

  The most important objects in the hut are the

  Options:
  A) prayer-rugs
  B) implements used in the workshop
  C) tool-boxes o Camara's father
  D) pcts containng the magic charms
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1708:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1709: All the images used to describe where the poet always stop in Lenrie Peter's ; The Fence 'are suggestive of the character's Options:
  A) cleverness
  B) versatility
  C) moral weakness
  D) romatic disposition
  E) evil nature
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1710:

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

  Duke:

  Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

  Rather than make unprofited return.

  Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  Options:
  A) make trouble to see Olivia
  B) jump the fence to see Olivia
  C) shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  D) fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .