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 991:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A foil in drama is also known as

  Options:
  A) flat character
  B) protagonist
  C) round character
  D) antagonist
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 992: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for Options:
  A) eighteen months
  B) two decades
  C) twelve years
  D) fourty days
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 993:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have said too much unto a heart of stone

  And laid mine honour too unchary out'

  Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare

  The above lamentation is an example of a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) zeugma
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 994:

  ''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

  This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

  Options:
  A) Gbossa
  B) Benue
  C) Nassarawa
  D) Jabu
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 995:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 996:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) prosody
  C) pun
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 997:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights Native Son

  Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

  Options:
  A) Twenty Dollars
  B) Twenty Five Dollars
  C) Thirty Dollars
  D) Thirty Five Dollars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 998:

  The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

  Options:
  A) objective
  B) first-person
  C) subjective
  D) third-person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 999:

  This question is based on S.I Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The dominant impression of the first person narrative in the novel gives it

  Options:
  A) an omniscient character
  B) an epistolary character
  C) a biographical character
  D) an autobiographical character
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1000:

  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 .