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 691:

  A chapter in a piece of drama is a

  Options:
  A) act
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 692:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 693:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Hardcastle:

  And I love every thing that's old old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and I believe, Dorothy (taking her hand) you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  Mrs. Hardcastle,

  You're forever at your Dorothy's, and your old wife's. You may be a Darby, but l'll be no Joan, I promise you I am not so old as you'd make me, by more than one good year.

  The dialogue above reveals the couple's

  Options:
  A) fear of the unknown
  B) difference in lifestyle
  C) love for each other
  D) humorous disposition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 694: The overall mood conveyed in Wole Soyinka's poem,'Night', can be accurately described as Options:
  A) calm
  B) agitated
  C) cheerful
  D) aggressive
  E) uneasy.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 695: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 696:

  This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.

  The dispute between Sarkin Zango and Sarkin Fatake is over a

  Options:
  A) horse
  B) piece of land
  C) source of water
  D) farmland
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 697:

  "I hate brave cowards like you" is an example of

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) Antithesis
  C) Eulogy
  D) Oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 698:

  Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:

  Who is the paternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan?

  Options:
  A) Mrs Bonu
  B) Hannah
  C) Fosuwa
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 699:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'He taught history classes in the room next to hers.

  He was quiet, clean and sincere. They could talk together and were friends long before she felt toleration for his personal habits that she identified as love . He was a dreamy unambitious person...who walked over the earth unhurriedly, as conscious of every step and print his footsteps would leave in the dirt'.

  Meridian by Alice Walker

  The person described in the passage is

  Options:
  A) a lackadaisical person
  B) unsaver
  C) uninteresting
  D) a finicky individual
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 700: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The spatial setting of the play is Options:
  A) verona
  B) padua
  C) venice
  D) athens
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  The correct answer is A .