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 371:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mrs. Hardcastle's complaint in the play that she misses 'a month's polishing' refers to her

  Options:
  A) rusting away in the countryside
  B) need to get the latest fashions in London
  C) need to buy the best polish in London
  D) boring life in the countryside
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 372:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  Imagery in the play is

  Options:
  A) always sexual and licentious
  B) sometimes sexual but not licentious
  C) always sexual but not licentious
  D) sometimes sexual and licentious
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 373:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 374: Dramatis personae in a play refers to Options:
  A) a list of characters
  B) order of appearance
  C) cast list
  D) protagonist and antagonist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 375:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  '...Great orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home.'Those being ridiculed here are the

  Options:
  A) spinsters
  B) husbands
  C) wives
  D) old women
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 376:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The first character in the play to refers to Othello by name is

  Options:
  A) Brabantio
  B) Desdemona
  C) the Duke
  D) lago
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 377:

  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 378:

  An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.

  Options:
  A) purgation
  B) peripeteia
  C) hubris
  D) anagnorisis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 379:

  This question is based onFemi Osofisan''s Morountodun.

  The sub-plots of the play are united by

  Options:
  A) an interest in peace
  B) the audience participlation
  C) a lack of focus
  D) a common concern for the heroine
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 380:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.;....I am in blood

  Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er'.

  Who spoke these words?

  Options:
  A) Lady Macbeth
  B) The fiest murderer
  C) Macbeth
  D) THE SECOND NURDERER
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  The correct answer is C .