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 531:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The opening act in the plays takes place at______

  Options:
  A) the village market
  B) the roadside to the farm
  C) the baale's room
  D) by the village stream
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 532: 'Local colour'in a novel or play is feature which Options:
  A) defines the nature of the vegetation of the setting
  B) explains the difference in patterns of behaviours of our characters
  C) refers to the racial backgrounds of the major characters in the novels or play
  D) emphazises the customs, norms, values and setting of the novel or play
  E) highlights thye ethnic origins of the various characters in the novel or play.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 533:

  The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____

  Options:
  A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
  B) of the need for human survival
  C) God wants man to feel less of himself
  D) of the space for God's worship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 534: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 535:

  An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

  Options:
  A) props
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 536: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Genres of literature aptly describes Options:
  A) tradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
  B) ode, elegy, sonnet
  C) short story, novel, autobiography
  D) poetry, prose , drama
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 537:

  The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that__________

  Options:
  A) he remains at a distance from much of the action that concerns and affects him at the beginning
  B) he refuses to appoint Iago as the Lieutenant
  C) although he is a cultural outsider in Venice, his military skills are valuable to the State
  D) Iago sees him as an enemy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 538: The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of Options:
  A) an implacable destructive force
  B) an invading but paradoxically welcome force
  C) a welcome and benevolent force
  D) a sinister and ominous force.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 539:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 540:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's first-person narrative techinique

  Options:
  A) makes the work very humorous
  B) makes his work less realistic
  C) quickens the tempo of his narrative
  D) makes his story more believable
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  The correct answer is D .