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 271:

  In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) acoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 272:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

  Options:
  A) simultaneously
  B) intermittently
  C) in a single revolution of the sun
  D) within the same locale
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 273:

  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 274: The specific case cited by Antony in his funeral oration to show that Caesar was not as ambitious as Brutus made him out to be, was that Caesar had Options:
  A) refused to take ransom after his victory
  B) pardoned all his captives
  C) thrice refused the crown during theb feast of Luperical
  D) been a friend of the senators.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 275:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka 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.

  The phrase, 'pressurized good-breeding' from Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', refers to the

  Options:
  A) speaker's personality
  B) whiteman's upbringing
  C) lady's personality
  D) persona's upbringing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 276:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Shelly, 'Ode to the West Wind'. The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 277:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The story of my life, which I am about to record Is one full of striking incident Keener pange, deeper joys more singular vicissitudes, few have been led in God's providence to experience. As I look back on it through the vista of more than sixty years and scene on scene it rise before me an ever fresh wonder fils my mind. I delight to recall it, I dwell on it as did the Jews on the marvellous history of thir rescue from the bondage of Egypt'

  Black Slave Narratives J.F. Bayliss (ed)

  The literary term used for this kind of writing is

  Options:
  A) biography
  B) autograph
  C) orthography
  D) autobiography
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 278:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 279:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An anti-social taken by the tragic hero which results in a catastrophe is called

  Options:
  A) anagnorisis
  B) premonition
  C) harmatia
  D) empathy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 280:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The execution of some of the animals on the orders Napoleon is to

  Options:
  A) prevent Snowball from coming back to the farm
  B) make the pigs constitute themselves into a special class
  C) achieve the pigs' socialist goals without further delay
  D) pave way for Napoleon to become an absolute ruler
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  The correct answer is D .