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 1791:

  These question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; A villain that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night.'

  The villain in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) engaging in a shouty match
  B) holding a sword to commit murder
  C) attempting to steal
  D) attending a feast uninvited
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1792: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A character that heavily relies on cultural types for his manner of speech, his personality and other distinguishing characteristics is Options:
  A) a fictional character
  B) a stock character
  C) a rounded character
  D) an antagonist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1793:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.

  About his being hid by two women'

  Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) ridicule
  C) irony
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1794:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Persona refers to the

  Options:
  A) central character in a play
  B) voice of the character
  C) the image a character presents
  D) the personality of a character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1795: 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 1796:

  'Is Aderopo jealous that i am sharing a bed with his mother? Very well then, let him come and sleep with his mother'.

  Odewale's statement is a good example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) pun
  C) irony
  D) sarcasm
  E) jargon.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1797: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1798:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeare's OTHELLO

  "O heaven; How got she out?
  O treason of the blood!
  Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
  By what you see them act. Is there not charms
  By which the property of youth and maid-hood
  May be abused?

  The speaker of the excerpt above is________

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Othello
  C) Gratiano
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1799: She unpacked the novels she had brought with her, and turned them over. These were the books she had collected over years from the mass that had come her way. She had read each one a dozen times, knowing it by heart, following the familiar tales as a child listens to his mother telling him a well-known fairy tale.
  This character may be best described as a woman Options:
  A) of habit
  B) of poor means
  C) of wide literary interest
  D) With poor memory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1800: These question are based on George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.Room 101 symbolizes a place oF Options:
  A) rest
  B) humiliation
  C) torture
  D) fun
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  The correct answer is C .