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 901:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) rituals
  C) proverbs
  D) songs and dances
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 902: 'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?'In this passage, lofty scene refers to Options:
  A) a great event
  B) the meeting of the conspirators
  C) the funeral of Caesar
  D) a scene acted on a raised platform
  E) the assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 903:

  This Question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  Characterization in the play is

  Options:
  A) economical but ineffective
  B) conomical and effective
  C) elaborate but ineffective
  D) elaborate and effective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 904:

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

  In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic monologue
  B) dramatic irony
  C) comic relief
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 905: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  The persons who take part in a play are sometimes referred to as Options:
  A) audience
  B) dramatists
  C) dramatis personae
  D) comedians
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 906:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  In Cheney-Coker's Myopia, the attitude of the poet is one of

  Options:
  A) sympathy
  B) joy
  C) empathy
  D) envy
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 907:

  Use the lines below to answer these two questions.A cursing rogue with a merry fảrce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crutch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) abab
  B) bbaa
  C) abba
  D) aabb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 908: 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 909:

  » This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Willy's first words show that his coming back is

  Options:
  A) ill-timed
  B) too early
  C) not expected
  D) normal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 910: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .