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 51:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  Bayo Adebowale portrayed Yaremi as resilient, self reliant and strong willed particularly to__________

  Options:
  A) rebuke African superstitious beliefs
  B) represent the image of African traditionalism
  C) condemn male chauvinism
  D) demonstrate the plight of widowhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 52: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Black theater is drama concerned with Options:
  A) mourners dressed in black
  B) actors of black origin
  C) the identity of black Americans
  D) Africans of West Indian origin
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 53:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 54: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s Fragments.The Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that Options:
  A) the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb
  B) society is incurable
  C) man is a fateful being
  D) the evils that men do live after them
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 55:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'She certainly doesn't want to play

  Other Woman in some conventional, boring triangle. She doesn't feel like an other Woman; she isn't weedling or devious, she doesn't wear negligees or paint her toe nails. William may think she's exotic but she isn't really; she's straightforward, narrow and unadomed, a scientist; not of web-spinner, expert at the entrapment of husbands.

  Life before Man by Margaret Atwood

  According to the passage, the 'Other Woman' by definition is

  Options:
  A) beautiful and vivacious
  B) dishonest and deceitful and
  C) careless and dowdy
  D) manipulative and predatory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 56:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The seeming shifty structure of the play is used to

  Options:
  A) assist in the development of the characters
  B) sustain the reader's interest
  C) reflect the emotional and psychological state of Hamlet
  D) slow down the pace of the plot development
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 57:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 58:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'I cannot blind myself

  To putrefying carcasses in the market place

  Pulling giant vultures

  From the sky.

  Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?

  The tone of the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) defiance
  B) anger
  C) mourning
  D) anxiety
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 59: Which group of characters appears in Macbeth? Options:
  A) Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
  B) Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
  C) Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
  D) Duncan, frederick, Banquo
  E) Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 60: The most quarrelsome character in Romeo and Juliet is Options:
  A) Benvolio
  B) Tybalt
  C) Paris
  D) Mercutio
  E) Juliet's nurse
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  The correct answer is D .