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 51:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

  Options:
  A) subjective narrator
  B) objective narrator
  C) omniscient narrator
  D) participatory narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 52: Purgation of emotion, pity and fear is Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) catastrophe
  C) epilogue
  D) exposition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 53:

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

  Catherine's natural looks portray her as a

  Options:
  A) sophisticated lady
  B) soldier's wife
  C) mountain farmer's wife
  D) business woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 54:

  "...Lying down in the melting snow.

  There were times we regretted

  The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,

  And the silken girls bringing sherbert."The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

  Options:
  A) romance
  B) nostalgia
  C) sorrow
  D) fear
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 55:
  From the novel; Harvest of Corruption

  Chief Ade Amaka portrays_______

  Options:
  A) betrayal of public trust
  B) fraud and misfortune
  C) lust and deceitfulness
  D) the evils of capitalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 56:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Slowly the silence on the mountain-top deepened till the click of the fire and the soft hiss of roasting meat could be heard clearly...

  Lord of the Files by William Golding

  'Soft hiss of roasting meat' in the passage above refers to the

  Options:
  A) gentle response of the animal being roasted
  B) rudeness of the animal to the hunter
  C) gentle process of roasting on the fire
  D) fropping of the fat of the meat in the fire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 57:

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

  '...He risked his life that you may boast

  A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-

  You sell him to the rhyming rabble

  Gloating in your disloyalty...

  In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to

  Options:
  A) clowns who wait on the Bale
  B) children in Lakunle's school
  C) professional singers
  D) the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 58:

  Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

  Options:
  A) movement and gesture for the screen and audience
  B) speech, movement and gesture for the stage only
  C) speech, movement and gesture for the stage, screen and radio
  D) speech, gesture and movement for the screen and radio
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 59:

  "Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,

  Whose word no man relies on,

  Who never said a foolish thing

  Nor ever did a wise one,"Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an example of

  Options:
  A) praise poem
  B) lamentation
  C) an epigram
  D) satiric poem
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 60: Which of the following best describes the speakers attitude to mother Idoto in Okigbo's poem 'Idoto'? Options:
  A) Obsequious
  B) Defiant
  C) Arrogant
  D) Submissive.
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  The correct answer is A .