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 981:

  A chapter in a piece of drama is a

  Options:
  A) act
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) dialogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 982:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A novel which focuses on the adventures of a rogue who does not change much in the course of the story is

  Options:
  A) romanesque
  B) grotesque
  C) picaresque
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 983:

  Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?

  Options:
  A) writer's opinion of the characters
  B) way the characters are revealed to the reader
  C) characters and the way they behave
  D) reader's opinion of the character
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 984:

  "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

  Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

  And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Apothecary
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Lord Montague
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 985: Based on Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Orisaye describes Balogun Kusa as Options:
  A) a good leader
  B) a great warrior
  C) an enemy and a butcher
  D) a friend in need
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 986:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A satire employs

  Options:
  A) comedy with the intent to amuse
  B) farce to comment on societal conduct
  C) irony to mock at situations
  D) sarcasm and humour for social criticism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 987:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  Which of the following events marks the climax of the novel ?

  Options:
  A) Susan Henchard's sale
  B) The return of susan Henchard
  C) The skimmity-ride
  D) The disclosure of Elizabeth-Jane's identity
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 988:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

  Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

  Dapped cells

  Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

  As night thieves."

  Wole Soyinka: NightThe dominant mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) apprehension
  B) defiance
  C) joy
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 989: Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune encourages people to Options:
  A) accept life as it is
  B) condemn soothsaying
  C) move in the direction of God
  D) accept soothsaying
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 990:

  Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,

  'He's coming', she said 'i heard the gate open.'In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) pity
  C) comic relief
  D) suspense
  E) characters.
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  The correct answer is D .