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 71:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 72:
  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 73: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The multiple deaths in the play serve as a punishment for Options:
  A) imposing life partner on children
  B) treating others with hatred
  C) disobeying one's own parents
  D) shedding kinsmen's blood
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 74:

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) formal and elaborate style and humour
  C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 75:

  "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 76:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  Miss Hardcastle is able to 'conquer' at the end of the play because of her

  Options:
  A) indiscretion
  B) beauty
  C) wit
  D) brawn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 77:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 78: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 79:

  This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days

  Yaremi's main job is

  Options:
  A) selling cassava
  B) harvesting cassava
  C) dyeing taffeta cloths
  D) sewing taffeta cloths
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 80:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he rose; shook a crumb or two from his waist coat, and expanding his broad chest, smiled happily, not because he felt particularly light-hearted his happy smile was simply the result of a good digestion.

  The character referred to in this passage

  Options:
  A) is excited by the news in the paper
  B) is lonely and unhappy
  C) has spent a long time over his food
  D) is pleased with himself after a good meal
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  The correct answer is D .