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 691:

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

  The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

  Options:
  A) the priest was only an impostor
  B) superstition reigns superme in Ozala
  C) traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
  D) the pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 692:

  A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in a play to shed light on the present action is

  Options:
  A) Climax
  B) Flashback
  C) Interlude
  D) Cathersis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 693:

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

  The comic in the play is found in the

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot
  B) Miss Hardcastle Marlow main plot two sub-plots
  C) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow main plot and Hasting-Neville sub-plot
  D) Miss Hardcastle-Marlow and Hasting-Neville series of sub-plots
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 694: This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbirdge. What makes the novel a tragedy? Options:
  A) The poetic justice in Henchard''s punishment
  B) All the character in the novel are failures
  C) A mixture of individual and circumstantial misfortune
  D) Thomas Hardy is a romantic and rustic pessimist
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 695: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the Options:
  A) ministry of the truth
  B) proles
  C) party
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 696:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Duke:

  Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

  Rather than make unprofited return.

  Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  Options:
  A) make trouble to see Olivia
  B) jump the fence to see Olivia
  C) shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  D) fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 697:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  Options:
  A) stops the main story to narrate other events
  B) creates a lot of funny episodes
  C) puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  D) shows that Francis is weaks
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 698:

  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 699: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  Ona has to leave her father's house because Options:
  A) of her love for Agbadi
  B) that is the tradition
  C) her father is dead
  D) of the safety of her child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 700:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A deliberate imitation of a literary style with the intention to ridicule is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) prosody
  C) pun
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .