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 231: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 232:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Lllusion and reality
  D) Humour and tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 233: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of her love for Agbadi
  B) that is the tradition
  C) her father is dead
  D) of the safety of her child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 234:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A poem written in honour and praise of somebody else is

  Options:
  A) a eulogy
  B) an epic
  C) an epigram
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 235: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionThe Two dominant themes of the play are Options:
  A) honesty and decency
  B) immorality and greed
  C) poverty and education
  D) weeding and planting
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 236: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 237: 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 238: In a play denouement is the Options:
  A) entry of the central character
  B) development of the central conflict
  C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
  D) climatic point in the development of the plot
  E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 239: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 240:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'

  This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

  Options:
  A) admiration
  B) mockery
  C) bitterness
  D) alarm
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  The correct answer is B .