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 351:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A character who does not develop or experience change in the course of his or her existence in a novel is a

  Options:
  A) round character
  B) flat character
  C) rounded character
  D) major character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 352:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) opposition
  B) heroine
  C) villain
  D) hero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 353: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The account of an experiences of an individuals during the course of a journey is known as Options:
  A) an autobiography
  B) a catalogue
  C) a memoir
  D) a travelogue
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 354:

  "...Rage is Chief
  Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
  Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
  Enemy of equanimity"

  The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 355:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Soyinka's depiction of Brother Jero in the play is

  Options:
  A) literal
  B) graphic
  C) sentimental
  D) symbolic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 356: Amope was introduced as a character into The Trials OF Brother Jero primarily to dramatize the Options:
  A) tragedy of unfaithful wives
  B) near realization of the curse hanging on brother Jero
  C) disadvantage of marrying an uneducated woman
  D) evils of street trading by women
  E) evil nature of women in general.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 357:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

  That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) detects discrimination
  B) is desirous of adventure
  C) hates his old wife
  D) knows much of his city men
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 358:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others... When you induce opponent to come to you,then their force is always empty,like attacking emptiness with fulness is throwing stones on eggs.'

  Zhang Yu: The Art of War

  The theme of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) folly of soldiers
  B) spurring people to action
  C) war
  D) inspiration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 359:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

  Options:
  A) Susan Henchard's sale
  B) The return of susan Henchard
  C) The skimmity-ride
  D) The disclosure of Elizabeth-Jane's identity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 360:

  'Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk...'

  In this passage, axe of intemperance means

  Options:
  A) hot temper
  B) cool temper
  C) evil mind
  D) recklessness.
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  The correct answer is D .