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 1181:

  The bustle in a house

  The morning after death

  Is solemnest of industries

  Enacted upon earth-

  The sweeping up the heart

  And putting love away

  We shall not want to use again

  Until eternity.

  The predominant mood of this poem is best captured by the words

  Options:
  A) misplaced anxiety
  B) great relief
  C) solemn resignation
  D) morbid fear.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1182: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1183: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1184: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) the world of demon lovers
  C) the river Alph
  D) a sunless sea
  E) sunny spots of greenery.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1185:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1186:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  Truly sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no trademan's matters nor women's matters, but withal- I am indeed, sir,a surgeon to ild shoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.'William Shakespeare: Julius CaesarThe speaker in the excerpt above is a

  Options:
  A) surgeon
  B) meddler
  C) cobbler
  D) trader
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1187:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A motif is

  Options:
  A) a recurrent image in a work of literature
  B) the reason behind a character's behaviour
  C) a single matrical line
  D) an essay or treatise on a particular subject
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1188:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

  J.P Clark:Olokun

  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1189: A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called Options:
  A) a soliloquy
  B) a tragi-comedy
  C) an epic
  D) an epigram.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1190:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In literature, a round character is associated with

  Options:
  A) change and growth
  B) stability and determination
  C) simplicity and modesty
  D) running down other characters
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  The correct answer is A .