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 771: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  A reference beyond the immediate purview of what is being presented is known as Options:
  A) allusion
  B) diversion
  C) inversion
  D) imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 772: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 773:

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

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is to

  Options:
  A) take to prostition
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abando their husbands
  D) abadon their children
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 774: Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims? Options:
  A) An industriouswoman plagued by bad luck
  B) A quarrelsome woman
  C) A jealous rival
  D) A shrewd calculating woman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 775: In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is Options:
  A) Ma Plank
  B) Leah
  C) Eliza
  D) Lena
  E) Maisy.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 776: This question is based on Faceless by Amma DarkoWhat is the reason that caused Odarley's mother to send him away from home? Options:
  A) she chose to go to the street
  B) her mother remarried
  C) she steals her mother things
  D) she wants to poison her boyfriend
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 777: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents Options:
  A) Benvolio is a troublemaker
  B) Benvolio is a cabinet maker
  C) Benvolio is kingmaker
  D) Benvolio is a peacemaker
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 778:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  In J.P. Clark's 'Streamside Exchange', the bird's reply concerns

  Options:
  A) the coming of the tide
  B) the uncertainty of the future
  C) market days
  D) mother's visit to the market
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 779:

  "In Oyo's eyes there was now real gratitude.

  Perhaps for the first time in their married life the

  Man could believe that she was glad to have him

  The way he was."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, from the above excerpts, Why was Oyo unhappy with her husband?

  Options:
  A) The man's moral uprightnesswas vindicted at the end
  B) She decided to love the man with all his weaknesses
  C) She realized that money was not everything
  D) The man suddenly came by a lot of money
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 780:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .