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 1: Plays are basically meant to be Options:
  A) presented on stage
  B) presented in the aircraft
  C) presented in an office
  D) presented in the hospital
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2:

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

  In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) ideas
  C) sentiment
  D) prowess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 3: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4: Writing about an abstract object as though it had human qualities is known as Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) denotation
  D) allusion
  E) imitation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 5:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'One man with a head

  Shaven clean as a potato

  Whispered to the rising sun,

  A red eye wiped by a tattered

  Handkerchief of clouds.'

  Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

  The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

  Options:
  A) metaphor and onomatopoeia
  B) simile and metonymy
  C) metaphor and simile
  D) personification and onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 6: Which one of the following is true of Lady Macbeth? Options:
  A) She is wicked and hates her husband
  B) She tells lies against Duncan
  C) She does not receive Duncan Warmly
  D) She conspires with those guiding Duncan
  E) She is a loving wife to her husband
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'

  Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

  The style of writing in the passage can be described as

  Options:
  A) introspective
  B) confused
  C) confrontational
  D) passive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 8: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.Life, though a vanity Yet, not purpose full in drawling resignation Life's spice is in striveFrom the extract above, the poet suggests that Options:
  A) life is full of care
  B) there can't be life without stive
  C) life is worthwhile without care
  D) strive makes life worth living
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.In Williams Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  I have said too much unto a heart of stone,

  And laid my honour too unchary on it',

  There's something in me that

  Reproves my fault. But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.'

  A heart of stone in the lines above is an example of

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) Metaphor
  C) Litotes
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 10:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .