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 831:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES'REVOLT.

  In the play the central idea is that gender equity_______?

  Options:
  A) both undesirable and unattainable
  B) desirable and unattainable
  C) attainable and desirable
  D) obnoxious and desirable
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 832:

  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 833: The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet occurs as a result of Options:
  A) a flaw in the character of Romeo
  B) a flaw in the character of Juliet
  C) Friar Lawrence's advice
  D) circumstances rather than flaws in character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 834:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 835:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 836: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to Options:
  A) Princess Evbakhavbokun and herchildren
  B) Glogbosere and the other Benin chiefs
  C) Captain Carter and the British soldiers
  D) Queen Victoria and the British official
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 837: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In literary work, verbal irony refers to a Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the trend of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a logical or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor on stage means exactly what he says
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 838: What Gerry liked most about Theodore Shephanides in My Family and Other Animals was his Options:
  A) smart apearance
  B) difference
  C) gift of microscope
  D) lovely tea parties
  E) inexhaustible knowledge.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 839: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  The attitude of Nnu Ego when she was told that her >i>Chi would not give her a child is one of Options:
  A) indifference
  B) despair
  C) apathy
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 840:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .