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 941:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 942: These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.Vandermayer's attitude and action towards Meka illustrates the church's Options:
  A) despondency
  B) infuriation
  C) hypocrisy
  D) suspicion
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 943:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Point of view is a technique that is commonly associated with

  Options:
  A) the narrative structure
  B) characterization
  C) plot
  D) atmosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 944:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 945:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 946: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as Options:
  A) epitasis
  B) protasis
  C) catharsis
  D) catastasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 947:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'O' serpent heart,hid with a flowering face!

  The statement above refers to

  Options:
  A) Romeo
  B) Tybalt
  C) Benvolio
  D) Juliet
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 948: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is Options:
  A) geisha
  B) shark
  C) iris
  D) marlin
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 949:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 950:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  The use of language in the play is written in both___ and ___ forms.

  Options:
  A) vague and prosaic.
  B) prosaic and poetic.
  C) archanic and vague.
  D) ambiguous and lyrical
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  The correct answer is B .