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 1621:

  'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

  Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

  The speaker of these words is the father of

  Options:
  A) Bikokolo
  B) Niam
  C) Albert
  D) Medza.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1622:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The frequent intervention of the Director makes the stage experience of Morountodun very

  Options:
  A) prolonged
  B) boring
  C) informal
  D) uncoordinated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1623:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety
  B) melancholy
  C) helplessness
  D) fury
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1624: Who succeeded Othello as Governor of Cyprus? Options:
  A) Cassio
  B) Lago
  C) Montano
  D) Gratiano
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1625:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???

  Options:
  A) White
  B) Red
  C) Black
  D) Green
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1626: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest,the character associated with savagery in the play is Options:
  A) Ferdinand
  B) Ariel
  C) Stephano
  D) Caliban
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1627:

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

  The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of

  Options:
  A) lkaki
  B) Ekpe
  C) Udje
  D) Etiyeri
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1628:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  One thing that Obanua found in the bar which he is unlikely to get at home is

  Options:
  A) food
  B) job
  C) security
  D) power
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1629:

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

  '....Those with breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me and the old girls returned home on retirement. It's the dry season, child.'The character to whom the words are spoken in the play is in

  Options:
  A) front of the verandah of Okoro's house
  B) Okoro's front yard, downstage
  C) the direction of the kitchen, offstage
  D) the kitchen, upstage
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1630:

  In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) litotes
  C) exaggeration
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .