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 191:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Comic relief is

  Options:
  A) the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
  B) a figure of speech used in comic theatre
  C) the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
  D) a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 192: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a Options:
  A) stanza in poetry
  B) meter in poetry
  C) trope in poetry
  D) verse in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 193:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  ...a huge senseless cathedral of doom'in Kofi Awoonor's The Cathedral implies

  Options:
  A) meaningless foreign religious parctices
  B) meaningless indigenous religious practices
  C) the architectural beaty of the cathedral
  D) the Catholic Church parctices
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 194:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) contrast between the old and the new
  B) conflict between belief and unbelief
  C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
  D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 195:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Rubadiri's 'Stanley Meets Mutesa' the king receives the explorer with

  Options:
  A) suspicion
  B) delight
  C) optimism
  D) relief
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 196:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The ideological leader of the revolution in the novel is

  Options:
  A) Napoleon
  B) Snowball
  C) Old Major
  D) Squealer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 198: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the type of fish caught by Santiago after days of effort is Options:
  A) geisha
  B) shark
  C) iris
  D) marlin
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 199:

  'Everything in this room outrages my sense of beauty, undermine my will to create pictures of lasting appeal...'

  The speaker in the quotation above is

  Options:
  A) Happy
  B) Excited
  C) Tired
  D) Frusrated
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 200:

  A struggle between opposing forces in a story/play is________

  Options:
  A) Denouement
  B) Conflict
  C) Comedy
  D) Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .