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 1001: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The plot of the play is Options:
  A) linear
  B) cyclical
  C) complicated
  D) episodic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1002: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  The play is about Options:
  A) resistance to British administration
  B) opposition to Christianity
  C) disunity among the Hausa state
  D) unity in the caliphate
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1003:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The arrangement of incidents in a novel in which one action precipitates another is called

  Options:
  A) sub theme
  B) chronology
  C) suspense
  D) causality
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1004:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the cold hands of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?

  Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'

  These two stanzas capture the

  Options:
  A) fear of death
  B) ugliness of death
  C) mystery of death
  D) knowledge of death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1005:

  "The all seeing sun

  Ne'er saw match since first the world begun."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The lines above were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Count Paris in praise of Juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Roseline
  D) Lady Capulet in praise of Roseline
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1006:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1007: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionWho impregnated Aloho? Options:
  A) The Commissioner
  B) Chief Haladu
  C) Justice Odili
  D) Inspector Inaku
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1008:

  A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

  Options:
  A) Drama
  B) comedy
  C) Prose
  D) Poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1009:

  A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........

  Options:
  A) Epistrophe
  B) Ellipsis
  C) Hypallage
  D) Hendiady
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1010:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her

  Options:
  A) rusting away in the countryside
  B) need to get the latest fashions in London
  C) need to buy the best polish in London
  D) boring life in the countryside
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  The correct answer is D .