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 321: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Pip is made most conscious of his ingratitude to Joe Margery through Options:
  A) the complaints of Biddy
  B) the pretensions of Pumblechook
  C) his rejection by Estella
  D) the death of his sister
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 322:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 323: "Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement? Options:
  A) Amankwa
  B) Oyo
  C) Koomson
  D) Osagyefo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 324: The novel, The Novella and the Short Story are the major sub-genres Options:
  A) non-fiction
  B) prose fiction
  C) poetry
  D) drama
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 325:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The story in the book is told from the point of view of

  Options:
  A) Nwabunor
  B) Obanua
  C) a first person narrator
  D) a third person narrator
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 326: A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called Options:
  A) am elegy
  B) an eulogy
  C) a sonnet
  D) an ode.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 327:

  ________is used to describe the 'god of inspiration' in literature

  Options:
  A) Muse
  B) Premiere
  C) Mood
  D) Deux Ex Machina
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 328:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) contented
  B) indifferent
  C) anxious
  D) enthusiastic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 329: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 330:

  In drama, the protagonist is ________

  Options:
  A) the writer of the drama
  B) the leading character
  C) the “nice guy”
  D) the actor
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  The correct answer is B .