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:

  In literary criticism, a casual reference to a figure or an event is regarded as a/an_______

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) metonymy
  C) metaphor
  D) allusion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 152:

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

  The 'Proclamation' and 'Reclamation' segments of the play are performed

  Options:
  A) as an aside
  B) by a chorus off-stage
  C) on-stage and off-stage
  D) off-stage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 153:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights NATIVE SON

  Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are

  Options:
  A) together
  B) servant in the white family
  C) educated
  D) given some respect
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 154:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A burlesque is

  Options:
  A) an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
  B) a sentimental comedy
  C) an account of a famous person's life
  D) a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 155:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  The play reaches a turning point when

  Options:
  A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
  B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
  C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
  D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 156: David Diop's poem 'The Vultures', ends in a Options:
  A) denunciation of colonialism
  B) resignation to oppression
  C) vindication of apartheid
  D) renunciation of African culture
  E) proclamanation of hope.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 157: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as Options:
  A) epitasis
  B) protasis
  C) catharsis
  D) catastasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 159: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.How did Winston start his rebellion against the state? Options:
  A) By keeping a private diary
  B) when he started a secret affair
  C) when he spied on the party
  D) by engaging ij anti-party activities
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 160: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'Me to the Orangery Solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale.
  Christopher Okigbo: Heavensgae
  The complexity of the poem can be ascribed to the poets use of Options:
  A) archaic diction
  B) structural inversion
  C) compound words
  D) extended metaphor
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  The correct answer is D .