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 1201:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1202:

  'But Obatal,

  God Creation,

  Has a way

  Of consoling the distressed.

  The consolation referred to by the narrator in The Gods Are Not To Blame is the

  Options:
  A) great peace that reigned in the land of Kutuje
  B) subjugation of the warlike people of Ikolu
  C) pregnancy of Aburo, Odewale's second wife
  D) birth of Aderopo by Ojuola.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1203:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Illusion and reality
  D) Humor and Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1204:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The play is preoccupied with

  Options:
  A) the fight by women to keep their goats
  B) the evil that oil money breeds
  C) women liberation from male domination
  D) women's protest against men's wickedness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1205: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as Options:
  A) assonance
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1206: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The play reaches reaches the point of denouement Options:
  A) at the family feast
  B) at the reconciliation of the feuding families
  C) when Romeo is informed of Juliet's death
  D) when Romeo kills Paris at the tomb
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1207: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung is a Options:
  A) leich
  B) lay
  C) lauda
  D) letrilla
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1208:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  When does the play open and close?

  Options:
  A) In the afternoon
  B) At midnight
  C) In the morning
  D) In the evening
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1209:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"

  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) anadiplosis
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) hendiadys
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1210:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  'Phases' in the novel refers to

  Options:
  A) phases of the moon and their effects on the plot
  B) moments of awareness of Tess'misfortune
  C) points of conflict between good and evil
  D) stages of development in the life of Tess
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  The correct answer is D .