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 1771: To be complete, a play MUST have Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) dramatic irony
  D) a conflict
  E) several soliloquies.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1772:

  'Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal...'

  The speaker in the quotation above is

  Options:
  A) Happy
  B) Excited
  C) Tired
  D) Frusrated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1773: 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 1774: In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to Options:
  A) the abode of the dead
  B) the palace of Achilles
  C) the abode of the Gods
  D) the ringing plants of windy Troy
  E) the land of the idle king.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1775: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Christopher Okigbo's 'Idoto'Idoto symbolizes Options:
  A) an object of religious worship
  B) the poet's mother
  C) the poet's cultural traditions
  D) a river in the poet's village
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1776: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the Options:
  A) mystery of existence
  B) omnipotence of God
  C) duality of life
  D) inevitability of death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1777: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to Options:
  A) discover the beauty of a literary work
  B) finds faults in a literary work
  C) analyse and evaluate a literary work
  D) compare literary works
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1778:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1779:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and

  Options:
  A) terror
  B) horror
  C) frustration
  D) sympathy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1780: The antagonist in a tragedy is ________ Options:
  A) any character in the tragedy
  B) the wife of the protagonist
  C) the character who provides comic relief
  D) the character set in opposition to the main character
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  The correct answer is D .