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: The speaker in 'When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to Options:
  A) to display bhis magical powers as a traditional priest
  B) show the poetic beauty of incantatory songs
  C) show the marvel about natural objects
  D) practise witchcraft on his enemies
  E) psychologically and magically disarm his enemies.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 2:

  A formal dignified speech or writing praising a person or a thing for past or present deeds is

  Options:
  A) lampoon
  B) eulogy
  C) premiere
  D) anthology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 3:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The stylistic device that uses the name of one thing to describe another is called a

  Options:
  A) synonym
  B) metonym
  C) mataphor
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 4: The tragedy in Romeo and Juliet occurs as a result of Options:
  A) a flaw in the character of Romeo
  B) a flaw in the character of Juliet
  C) Friar Lawrence's advice
  D) circumstances rather than flaws in character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 5:

  Rhythm is achieved in Raleigh'sThe Soul's Errandthrough the use of

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) Antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 6:

  'Contrition twines me like a snake

  Each time i come upon the wake

  Of your clan,...'

  In this passage 'contrition' is

  Options:
  A) personified
  B) satirized
  C) exaggerated
  D) modified
  E) emphasized
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 7:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  'The gloom will give way to light

  And the thorny path cleared of pain

  The storms will bow to the prompting of peace

  Lost moments of glory will be restored

  And strangled opportunities reborn

  We shall yet regain the dawn

  The suggestion that runs through the short poem above is that of

  Options:
  A) anxiety and worry
  B) anticipation of positive change
  C) sorrow and dejection
  D) fear of change
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 8:

  "Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

  Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

  Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

  And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

  Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

  You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

  Options:
  A) clean up broken bottles
  B) come to self-knowledge
  C) realize your vision is blurred
  D) surrender to your weakness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 9:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  The statement 'the new religion was like a leper' means that

  Options:
  A) the new religion, if welcomed, will overshadow the traditional religions
  B) the Europeans who brought the new religion were lepers
  C) all those who join the new religion would become lepers
  D) religion invites diseases
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 10: A funny incident within a serious situation is Options:
  A) comedy
  B) comic relief
  C) tragic comedy
  D) tragic hero
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  The correct answer is B .