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 ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME In the prologue, the narrator's role to blame

  Options:
  A) explains why the gods are not to blame
  B) narrates the life history of the hero
  C) reminds the principle character of thier functions
  D) explains to the audience the mimed action on the stage.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 192: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 193:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 194: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author's perception of real change in the novel? Options:
  A) A change of government
  B) A change of rulers
  C) The elimination of opponents
  D) The transformation of society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 195: Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by ________ Options:
  A) movement from serious to the light-hearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 196: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as Options:
  A) mime
  B) paradox
  C) criticism
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 197:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 198:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

  The platter wears away with serving food.

  No log retains its bark when old,

  No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.From the poem above, "No lover peaceful while the rival weeps" means that

  Options:
  A) the pain of one lover is felt by the other
  B) there is no permanent love
  C) there is true and permanent love
  D) the two lovers weep together
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 199:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) an authority to write
  B) a copyright
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitutional provision
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 200:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .