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 1131:

  The subject matter of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) plot
  B) setting
  C) theme
  D) structure
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1132:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare's ambition in marrying Tess d'Urbervilles is to secure a wife with

  Options:
  A) high social standing
  B) great fortune
  C) rustic innocence
  D) a wide knowledge of the world
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1133: Kaunda's reminiscences of his boyhood in Lubwa were Options:
  A) completely happy
  B) a mixture in Lubwa and hatred of his playmates
  C) dominated by entirely painful incidents
  D) a mixture od sad and happy expiriences
  E) a combination of regret and hatred of the teachers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1134:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

  The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1135:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born'.

  'Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird

  The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul.

  But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo'.

  Which character in the novel is likened to his bird?

  Options:
  A) Koomson
  B) Oyo
  C) The man
  D) Teacher
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1136: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Characterization 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 characters
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1137:

  'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

  And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic dialogue
  B) monologue
  C) mistaken identity
  D) dramatic irony
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1138:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1139: In 'The Sea Eats Our Land' the word 'sea' symbolizes Options:
  A) flood
  B) ancestor
  C) modernity
  D) sacrifise
  E) golden girl
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1140:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A primary ballad is associated with

  Options:
  A) educated people
  B) urban folk
  C) the nomads
  D) rural folk
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  The correct answer is D .