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 781:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

  Options:
  A) Rosencrantz
  B) Yorick
  C) Sexton
  D) Fortinbras
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 782:

  'Thou losest labour

  As easy mayst thou the interenchant air with kneel sword impress as make me bleed'

  Macbeth contempt from Macduff's effort in this battle scene arises from

  Options:
  A) the quality of his military uniform
  B) the fact that he cannot be hurt by mortals
  C) the fact that the witches has given him charms
  D) the fact that the witches have made him think no mortal can hurt him
  E) the fact that he is as light as Air.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 783: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a Options:
  A) stanza in poetry
  B) meter in poetry
  C) trope in poetry
  D) verse in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 784: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal
  The only two sons of Meka die fighting for Options:
  A) independence
  B) the colonialists
  C) the church
  D) their people
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 785:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 786:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  If God is the sole author of man's life and all that befall him on earth, does it not stand to reason that all evils that befall man are God sanctioned?

  If man generally turns to God to ball him out of evil or bad occurrences, is one wrong then to conclude that He allows evils to befall man to bring him back to Him?

  The literary style used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) discursive
  B) rhetorical
  C) accusative
  D) interrogative
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 787:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The technique in which both the stage and the auditorium are involved in a lay production is called

  Options:
  A) theatre of the absurd
  B) role-playing
  C) audience participation
  D) total theatre
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 788: In Zambia Shall Be Free although Kaunda was well settled and happy as a teacher at Lubwa, he was restless because Options:
  A) his pay was poor
  B) he wanted to join the army
  C) he quarrelled with his wife often
  D) he wanted to break away and be on his own
  E) he liked to travel.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 789: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who Options:
  A) is undeveloped
  B) undergoes changes
  C) dies abruptly
  D) achieves greatness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 790: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments
  In the novel, the most prominent from of literature used is Options:
  A) myth
  B) drama
  C) poetry
  D) folktale
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  The correct answer is B .