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 151: 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 152:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.

  'Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal'.

  In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo's Idoto, the speaker is a 'prodigal' because he

  Options:
  A) has wasted all his mother's money
  B) is money
  C) has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
  D) has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 153: This question is based on Ahmed Yerima's Attahiru.
  Characterization in the play comprises three major groups of Options:
  A) counsellors, spiritual advisers and soldiers
  B) court officeials, British soldiers and beggars
  C) court officials, British official and people
  D) people soldiers and beggars
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154:

  How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 155:

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

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 156:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

  Options:
  A) Major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 157:

  'No; This my hand will rather

  The multitudinous seas incarnadine

  Making the green and red .'

  In the above lines the figure of speech used is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a poet implicitly compares an object or idea with another totally different object or idea is called a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) denotation
  C) connotation
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 159:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) portagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 160:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .