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 371: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The continuation of meaning without pause, from one line to the next is Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) melodrama
  C) enjambment
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 372:

  'Sweet are the uses of adversity

  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head'

  The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It' is

  Options:
  A) Jacques
  B) Orlando
  C) Adams
  D) Duke senior
  E) Le Bosu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 373:

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

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

  The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  Options:
  A) contempt and admiration
  B) hatred and pity
  C) contempt and disregard
  D) disregard and pity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 374:

  ... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) storyline
  B) narrative hook
  C) plot
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 375:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

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

  The play is pre occupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from males domination
  D) Women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 376:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 377: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Tess of the d'Urbrvilles is an interrogation of the Victorian period's
  Options:
  A) double standard
  B) concept of love
  C) ideas about women
  D) celebration of industrialization
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 378: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
  That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
  Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are Options:
  A) Hamlet's orchard and his crown
  B) young Hamlet and Gertrude
  C) the crown and the queen
  D) Norway and young fortinbras
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 379: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 380: The 'Settings in a novel refers to Options:
  A) the point in the story where we first encounter the main character
  B) the overall social and physical background of the main events in the novel
  C) the home country of the hero or heroine
  D) the location where the main event in the novel takes place
  E) all the various places mentioned in the novel.
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  The correct answer is D .