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 961:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 962:

  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 963: Earth has not anything to; show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning.
  It is suggested in these lines that Options:
  A) The beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city.
  B) The beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning.
  C) The beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated.
  D) There is no beauty on earth.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 964: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 965:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 966: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Detur Son-of-God had only one job hence-forward that evening: to keep an almost over solicitous eye on my glass. Even when I forgot to drink for some time the young man would come over to me and whisper in my ear:'' Come on old fellow, drink up and let me give you another. Do you want to stop me getting into Heaven?''
  Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti
  The mood of the quotation in this passage is Options:
  A) tragically comic
  B) deadly serious
  C) playfully serious
  D) humorously comic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 967: The poem 'When a Strainer Takes in Water' is Options:
  A) a dirge
  B) an incantation
  C) an ode
  D) a lullaby
  E) a ballad.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 968:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The war in the play symbolizes the struggle between the

  Options:
  A) capitalists and the socialists
  B) bourgeoisie and the proteriat
  C) market women and the men
  D) farmers and the consumers
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 969:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 970: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  The literary device used in the excerpt is
  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) simile
  C) sarcasm
  D) bathos
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  The correct answer is B .