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 571: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 572:

  The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

  Options:
  A) objective
  B) first-person
  C) subjective
  D) third-person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 573: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.IN THE PLAY, THE TWO REVENGE PLOTS REVOLVE AROUND Options:
  A) Hamlet against Polonius and Laertes against Claudius
  B) Hamlet against Claudius and Laertes gainst Hamlet
  C) Claudius against Hamlet and Laertes against Gertrude
  D) Ophelia against Hamlet and Laertes against Hamlet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 574:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments.

  The setting of the novel is the

  Options:
  A) traditional Nigerian society
  B) post-independence Ghanaian society
  C) pre-independence Ghanaian society
  D) moder Nigerian society
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 575:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 576:

  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 577:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 578:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 579:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 580:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'His round cheeks, his round nose, his round chin were a cool, healthy red. In the globe of his face and neatly circular as if drawn in bright crayon, his narrow long, tip tilted eyes, clear a pale blue water, seemed out of place, as if two incompatible strains had collided in making him.'

  The picture presented above of a particular individual has

  Options:
  A) photographic clarity
  B) satiric undertones
  C) elements of exaggeration
  D) derogatory connotations
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  The correct answer is A .