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:

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) an authority to write
  B) a copyright
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitutional provision
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 692:

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

  The play ends on a note of

  Options:
  A) cynicism
  B) idealism
  C) realism
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 693:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are informed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 694:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The hypocritical character in the play is

  Options:
  A) Montano
  B) lago
  C) Cassio
  D) Roderigo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 695:

  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 696:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The flat character in a literary work

  Options:
  A) is the same as the round character
  B) cannot be found in an allegory
  C) is capable of growing
  D) always embodies a quality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 697:

  A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) eulogy
  C) premiere
  D) anthology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 698:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

  Options:
  A) audiences
  B) speeches
  C) actions
  D) characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 699:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The technique Kwesi Brew employs to portray the nightmarish image in his poem 'The Executioner's Dream' is the description of the

  Options:
  A) childhood fun
  B) only set in a crown of thorns
  C) gory details
  D) wicked sappor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 700:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The play is

  Options:
  A) a melodrama
  B) a tragedy
  C) an epic
  D) a farce
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  The correct answer is A .