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 771:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME What is the significance of Alaka and Gbonka to the plot of the play ?

  Options:
  A) They are major figures in the drama
  B) They only held the vital clues for revealing the identity of Odewale
  C) The y were friends of the late Ogundele
  D) Their meeting with Odewale would help assuage his sorrow.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 772:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above shows that the persona

  Options:
  A) so hates the words of the girl
  B) understands the girl's songs
  C) does not understand the girl's language
  D) is so much in love with the girl
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 773:

  "Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly

  Backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of

  Their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They

  Cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than

  People, she thinks for the thousandth time.No

  Ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

  Options:
  A) more radiant
  B) more colourful
  C) less awkward
  D) less scheming
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 774:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The theme of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) dominant pre-occupation of the work
  B) interesting issues raised in the work
  C) different views on a particular topic
  D) psychological issues in the work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 775:

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

  Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.

  About his being hid by two women'

  Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) ridicule
  C) irony
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 776: _______ In literature is the sequential arrangement of events in a creative work Options:
  A) Cast
  B) Summary
  C) Flaw
  D) Plot
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 777:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  Laye's stay with Uncle Mamadou reveals a lot about

  Options:
  A) his unwillingness to stay with his parents
  B) his affection for his uncle
  C) the strength of communal living in Africa
  D) the irresponsibility of his parents
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 778:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'O'let us have him, for his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion and buy men's voices to commend our deeds it shall be said his judgement rules our hands. Our youths and wildness shall not whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity.

  William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

  In the excerpt above, his silver hairs refers to

  Options:
  A) a judicial wig
  B) make-up
  C) old age
  D) wealth
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 779:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  The epilogue in a literary composition is

  Options:
  A) at the beginning
  B) in the middle
  C) at the end
  D) just before the end
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 780: This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.Amope is dissatisfied with her husband's status as a Options:
  A) bicycle owner
  B) chief clerk
  C) chief messenger
  D) deputy to Jero
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  The correct answer is C .