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 1541:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1542:

  A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

  Options:
  A) six
  B) four
  C) three
  D) five
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1543: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1544:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A humorous scene, incident or speech in the course of a serious fiction or drama is a

  Options:
  A) play-within-the-play
  B) comic scene
  C) comic relief
  D) tragi-comedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1545: This question is based on Literary.Our third jailer made little or me. He was one of the many struggled in order to feed their families. Be seemed to be very much controlled by the other two. Elechi Amadi Sunset in BiafraThe speaker's attitude towards the jailer in the passage above is that of Options:
  A) admiration
  B) condemnation
  C) spite
  D) respect
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1546:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Sound effects in the theater are realizable through the use of

  Options:
  A) props
  B) acoustics
  C) proscenium
  D) echoes
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1547:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Catharsis is experienced

  Options:
  A) after one has written a play
  B) when a play is still being staged
  C) before watching a play
  D) after watching a play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1548: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1549:

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

  The central theme of the play is the

  Options:
  A) ills of modern days
  B) clash between tradition and modernity
  C) problem of courtship
  D) conflict between the old and the young
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1550:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .