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 201:

  A sub-chapter in a piece of drama is a______________

  Options:
  A) Act
  B) Setting
  C) Verse
  D) Scene
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 202:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ....

  The traditional o4rder in the play is represented by

  Options:
  A) Hannah
  B) Aaron and Maanan
  C) Aunt
  D) Mrs. B
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 203:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The lesson learnt from 'The Fulani Creation Story' is that Doondari cannot tolerate

  Options:
  A) man
  B) blindness
  C) sleep
  D) pride
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 204: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the. Options:
  A) subjective
  B) first-person
  C) third-person
  D) objective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 205:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The poet's mood in Gabriel Okara's 'The Fisherman's invocation' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) anxiety
  C) contentment
  D) self-doubt
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 206:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 207:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A trilogy is the

  Options:
  A) sequence of three one-act drama written by the same author
  B) set of three players written by the same authors
  C) collection of three poems of equal length
  D) series of related stories divided into three equal parts
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 208:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Catharsis is experienced

  Options:
  A) after one has written a play
  B) when a play is still being staged
  C) before watching a play
  D) after watching a play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 209:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  '....Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It's the dry season, child.'The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in

  Options:
  A) front of the verandah of Okoro's house
  B) Okoro's front yard, downstage
  C) the direction of the kitchen, offstage
  D) the kitchen, upstage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 210:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

  Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

  The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

  Options:
  A) all the six bodyguards deserted the king
  B) ofof the seven bodyguards, only came back
  C) all the four bodyguards were killed
  D) of the five bodyguards, only one came.
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  The correct answer is D .