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 1121:

  "Will college make you a better Olokun

  Priest?

  Will it make you serve our ancestors

  Better?

  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-

  Hearted priest

  Of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1122:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The setting of The African Child is a kingdom with

  Options:
  A) Islamic and modern traditions
  B) pre-Islamic and Islamic traditions
  C) pre-Islamic traditions
  D) pre-Islamic and modern traditions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1123:

  "I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.

  Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too."Based on the novel Piggy's, The split in the group of boys occurs with the departure of

  Options:
  A) Jack
  B) Ralph
  C) Roger
  D) Simon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1124: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  But, O, what from of prayer can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!
  That cannot be; since I am still possess'd of those effects for which I did the murder
  Those effects which Claudius is still possessed of from the excerpt above are Options:
  A) Hamlet's orchard and his crown
  B) young Hamlet and Gertrude
  C) the crown and the queen
  D) Norway and young fortinbras
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1125: Which of the following was not written by Wole Soyinka? Options:
  A) The interpreters
  B) The Lion and the jewel
  C) The Trials of Brother Jero
  D) Kongi's Harvest
  E) The Strong Breed.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1126: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found Options:
  A) in most kinds of poems
  B) only in free verse
  C) uniquely in blank verse
  D) peculiarly in rhyming couplets
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1127:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1128: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A poetic device in which an idea in a line runs into another is called Options:
  A) rhyme scheme
  B) enjambment
  C) end rhyme
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1129:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1130: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A literary genre which directly imitates human action is Options:
  A) drama
  B) comedy
  C) prose
  D) poetry
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  The correct answer is A .