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 611:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The play is built on

  Options:
  A) mistaken identities
  B) sentiments and realities
  C) comedy of errors
  D) conttrasts of characters and ideas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 612:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  OBASEKI [from the auditorium]. For the peace of the land, obey him - Benin has had enough trouble!

  [Roupe11 turns, feigning departure.]

  CHIEF EZOMO [ urgently kneels before Ovonramwen]. Pray, my lord, do nothing to provoke him again!

  IYASE [fervently beseeching] . Benin... think of Benin!

  This dialogue became necessary because of Ovonramwem's

  Options:
  A) intention to resume fighting
  B) intransigence in the face of authority
  C) refusal to pay homage to the witeman
  D) unwillingness to befriend the witemen
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 613:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Poems that are not written in meter or regular line length are called

  Options:
  A) short verses
  B) rhythmic verses
  C) free verses
  D) irregular verses
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 614: This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.'That is a photograph of the gentleman - the patriot and hero - to whom I am betrothed',. The gentleman referred to in this passage is Options:
  A) Bluntschli
  B) Sergius
  C) Petkoff
  D) Don Quixote
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 615:

  An act of speaking ones thought aloud by oneself, regardless of any hearer, in a play is known as____________

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) fable
  C) comedy
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 616:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The most important concepts in poetry are:

  Options:
  A) story and action
  B) plot and rhythm
  C) rhythm and imagery
  D) plot and character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 617:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A farce refers to a drama that has elements of the

  Options:
  A) serious
  B) comic
  C) satiric
  D) tragic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 618: In Great Expectations, Pips nursing of Magwitch is significant because it Options:
  A) prevents Magwitch's immediate death by prolonging his life
  B) enables Magwitch to confirm Pip's as his heir
  C) recalls Herbert's nursing of Pip
  D) shows Pip's moral regeneration.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 619: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The party seeks power for Options:
  A) its own sake
  B) its members
  C) people's sake
  D) the nation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 620: These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.Lawrence's Bat opens with the description of the Options:
  A) bats
  B) scenery
  C) scene
  D) creatures
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  The correct answer is B .