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 111: In a play denouement is the Options:
  A) entry of the central character
  B) development of the central conflict
  C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
  D) climatic point in the development of the plot
  E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 112: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,Caliban's intention to rape Miranda is born out of the desire to Options:
  A) marry her
  B) destroy the island
  C) compete with Ferdinand
  D) populate the island with Calibans
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 113: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An autobiography becomes a literary work when Options:
  A) it is a faithful account of the author's
  B) it underlines the salient events in the author's life
  C) it relates the author's life to the major events of the day
  D) its value resides principally in its style
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 114:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 115:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  ''...The sugar-daddy of the boutique dresses wants to marry Binetou. Just imagine...'''

  What is ironical about this statement ?

  Options:
  A) The speaker is Binetou's friend
  B) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's husband
  C) Binetou is the speaker's rival
  D) The sugar-daddy is the speaker's father
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 116:

  "The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

  Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

  Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

  The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) suffering from insomnia
  B) one of the numerous living in poverty
  C) not an ordinary individual
  D) a difficult individual
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 117: 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 118: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  The main concern of Winston in the novel is to Options:
  A) take power for himself
  B) acquire wealth
  C) overthrow the party
  D) bring social change
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 119: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A short and witty remark is Options:
  A) a limerick
  B) a tercet
  C) an eptgram
  D) a litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 120: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.GALLWAY (untying a parcel). 'Your Highness, our Queen, Her Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, asks us to extend her very best wishes to you;...... What is contained in the parcel which Gallway unties? Options:
  A) An inner tube of a bicycle
  B) A royal message from Queen Victoria
  C) A framed portrait of Queen Victoria
  D) A bottle of gin
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  The correct answer is C .