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 1021:

  'When we got off the bus he helped me to cross the road, holding me by the elbow. Submissively, I allowed my self to be led. Out on the square there was an African sun, and in my heart too, shading a flood of light'.

  The narrator here is full of

  Options:
  A) gloom
  B) fears
  C) doubts
  D) cheer
  E) uncertainty.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1022: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, To drop his philosophy of life and imbibe the tenets of the party, Winston is subjected to all forms of torture and inhuman treatment by Options:
  A) O'Brien
  B) thought police
  C) Big Brother
  D) Goldstein
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1023: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1024:

  Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________

  Options:
  A) opposite
  B) similar
  C) symbolic
  D) repetitive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1025: Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as Options:
  A) a novel
  B) a tragic play
  C) an autobiography
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1026: Which group of characters appears in Macbeth? Options:
  A) Audrey, Phebe, Silvius
  B) Charles, Malcolm, Banquo
  C) Lennox, Donalbain, Seyton
  D) Duncan, frederick, Banquo
  E) Oliver, Ross, Banquo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1027: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the. Options:
  A) subjective
  B) first-person
  C) third-person
  D) objective
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1028: After the murder of Duncan , Macbeth was still dissatisfied because Options:
  A) he wanted to see the witches again
  B) he had only paved the way for Banquo's son
  C) he felt remorse
  D) lady Macbeth could not sleep
  E) there was knocking at the gate
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1029:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Hamlet: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  Here, Hamlet is urging the players to

  Options:
  A) reflect reality
  B) be good actors
  C) justify their actions
  D) be creative on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1030:

  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 .