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 901:

  *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 902:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'The eyes of the house dog sprawled between my legs followed, full envy, piece after piece of fish down the throat of his master, my host.'

  Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy

  The dog in the passage

  Options:
  A) followed his master about
  B) ran after his master's fish
  C) caught the fish between the legs
  D) watched as his master ate the fish
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 903:

  This question i based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  '... I think our country skins beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.'

  Who made the above statement and to whom?

  Options:
  A) Macduff to Ross
  B) Malcolm to Macduff
  C) Malcolm to Ross
  D) Macduff to Malcolm.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 904: The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as Options:
  A) theory
  B) plot
  C) theme
  D) characterization
  E) fable.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 905: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as Options:
  A) brave and resourceful
  B) frightened and beastly
  C) religious and orderly
  D) anarchic and savage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 906: Kongi's harvest is Options:
  A) a political drama
  B) social comedy
  C) a play about natural rulers
  D) a historical tragedy
  E) a domestic comedy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 907: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  Monometer is a Options:
  A) single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel'
  B) line repeated in the first syllable of a word
  C) single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
  D) line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 908:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A story which explains the origin of a natural phenomenon is a

  Options:
  A) fiction
  B) legend
  C) parable
  D) myth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 909:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

  Options:
  A) stage direction
  B) dramatic irony
  C) setting
  D) improvisation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 910:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .