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 671: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 672: To be complete, a play MUST have Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) dramatic irony
  D) a conflict
  E) several soliloquies.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 673:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

  Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

  Dapped cells

  Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

  As night thieves."

  Wole Soyinka: NightThe dominant mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 674:

  *For seven days it rained that June;
  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
  complained in his hair.
  John Updike, Wash

  The image set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) rain and flood in June
  B) discomfort and likely destruction
  C) the days of Noah
  D) an animal insects and fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 675:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'Here lies a great and mighty king

  Whose promise none relies on

  He never said a foolish thing

  Not ever did a wise one'.

  The lines above could best from an

  Options:
  A) epistle
  B) episode
  C) epiphany
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 676: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.As the dancers move through paths strewn with glass chips, the image in Adeoti's Naked Soles change from Options:
  A) inaction to action
  B) pain to grief
  C) sorrow to joy
  D) joy to excitement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 677:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The dialogue at the end of the novel reveals

  Options:
  A) Li's resolve to sustain her marriage
  B) Li's tragic end
  C) Awa's role as the man of the house
  D) the cycle of life in Li's family
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 678:

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

  In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is

  Options:
  A) both undersirable and unattainable
  B) attainable and desirable
  C) obnoxious but desirable
  D) desirable but unattainable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 679:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 680:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) all the actors
  B) three of the actors
  C) a few of the actors
  D) an exclusive social class in the play
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  The correct answer is A .