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 171:

  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 172:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Othello kills Desdemona because the_______

  Options:
  A) former is jealous
  B) former's race is insulted
  C) latter is a witch
  D) latter is an idol
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 173: 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 174:

  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 175: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.The novel is mainly classified as a Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) satire
  D) fiction
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 176:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse.

  The theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

  Options:
  A) an aristocrats's marital problems
  B) the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
  C) an ambassador's personal life
  D) the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 177:

  A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) eulogy
  C) premiere
  D) anthology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 178:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  'Emonemua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and needed nursing, I little knew I was walking into a house of ruin.'J.C Clark-Bekederemo: The BoatFrom the excerpt above, the speaker is

  Options:
  A) bereaved
  B) homeless
  C) recovering from an illness
  D) a trained nurse
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 179:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The line 'under snakeskin shoes and Mercedes tyres' in Osundare's 'They Too are the Earth' is a good example of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metonymy
  C) contrast
  D) similitude
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 180: In The Victims, the affection between Ubaka and Bomboy is significant because it Options:
  A) results in the death of Ubaka
  B) shows that young people are more affectionate than their elders
  C) contrasts with the general hatred in their family
  D) leads to reconciliation in the family
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  The correct answer is C .