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 701: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A prose work which centres on moral growth and character formation of an individual is called Options:
  A) psychological novel
  B) picaresque
  C) autobiography
  D) satirical novel
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 702: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) As soon as Ayo becomes the cocoa inspector
  B) Shortly before the beggars strike
  C) As soon as his mother starts kickiung against it.
  D) After their contemptuous treatment at the hands of Layeni
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 703:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  "Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew No more of

  Options:
  A) Travelling
  B) Sick
  C) Dying
  D) Eloping
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 704: Based on Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Eugene Achike in the novel is portrayed as Options:
  A) a tough retired soldier
  B) a soft and gentle husband
  C) an uncompromising traditionalist
  D) a fanatical Catholic adherent
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 705:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 706:

  A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

  Options:
  A) Drama
  B) comedy
  C) Prose
  D) Poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 707:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The villains in this poem by Osundara are

  Options:
  A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
  B) those who squander the wealth of the earth
  C) the thousands buried alive
  D) the people who die in abandon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 708:

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

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 709:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me...

  What's your father?''

  ''May dad's dead,'' he said quickly, ''and my mum...''

  This dialogue is between

  Options:
  A) Jack and Robert
  B) Jack and Ralph
  C) Jack and Piggy
  D) Piggy and Ralph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 710:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  The message of the novel is that

  Options:
  A) capitalism is as bad as communism
  B) humanism is better than animalism
  C) communism is better than capitalism
  D) no society exists where everyone is equal
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  The correct answer is D .