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 141:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The novel is largely set in

  Options:
  A) Futa Toro
  B) Sabonville city
  C) Alligator city
  D) Nuclear city
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 142:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'

  Charles Dickens, Hard Times

  From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is

  Options:
  A) dogmatic
  B) hostile
  C) theoretical
  D) eloguent
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 143:

  This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________

  Options:
  A) Paragraph
  B) Theme
  C) Chapters
  D) Characters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 144: A device in drama where a character speaks alone is Options:
  A) soliloquy
  B) aside
  C) apostrophe
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 145:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  What does the protagonist do in a picaresque novel?

  Options:
  A) He embarks on a journey
  B) He slows down the narration
  C) He draws illustrative pictures
  D) He becomes an artist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 146:

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

  In the play, the central idea is that gender equality is

  Options:
  A) both undersirable and unattainable
  B) attainable and desirable
  C) obnoxious but desirable
  D) desirable but unattainable
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 147:

  Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word
  Pad

  Options:
  A) paid
  B) mail
  C) mat
  D) made
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 148:

  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 149:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  'And since we did not understand our dead since we have never listened to their cries

  If we weep gently....'

  What heart will listen to our clamouring 'Vanity' expresses

  Options:
  A) regret and disappointment
  B) disillusion and despair
  C) disdain and disgust
  D) satisfaction and pleasure
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 150: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'Genres of literature aptly describes Options:
  A) tradedy comedy, tragi-comedy
  B) ode, elegy, sonnet
  C) short story, novel, autobiography
  D) poetry, prose , drama
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  The correct answer is D .