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 1171: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1172:

  'But now as he climbed the steep path leading to his home, his courage started to lag behind. His conscience lagged behind. His weak body and hungry stomach pushed him expectantly up the path towards home, where rest and satisfaction awaited him...'

  The literary device predominantly used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) hendiadys
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) metonymy
  D) simile
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1173:

  These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'

  In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) hyperbole
  C) alliteration
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1174:

  "...If someone threw you a rope when you were

  Drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take this because if you

  Don't take it, you will die- you would, wouldn't you? I

  Mean?"Based on the novel "Piggy's",the "rope" and the doctor's prescription refers to the

  Options:
  A) pig
  B) beast
  C) conch
  D) smoke signal
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1175:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

  Options:
  A) audiences
  B) speeches
  C) actions
  D) characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1176:

  '...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'

  The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of

  Options:
  A) his father
  B) his grandfather
  C) Ikemefuna
  D) his grandmother
  E) Ezinma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1177: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to Options:
  A) Count Paris in Praise of Juliet
  B) annoy Tybalt
  C) take another wife
  D) serve as an assistance to Romeo
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1178:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1179:

  "Lift not the painted veil which those who live

  Call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,

  And it mimic all we would believe

  With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:SonnetThe stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) sestet
  C) quatrain
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1180: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  'The huge sacrifice that ward off death The big offering that prevents diseases......
  Femi Osofisan: Morountodun
  The poem above can best be described as
  Options:
  A) epic
  B) heroic
  C) praise
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is A .