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 1191:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

  Options:
  A) a copyright
  B) an authority to write
  C) an author's right
  D) a constitional provision
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1192:

  ______is a subdivision of a poem?

  Options:
  A) sentence
  B) lines
  C) stanza
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1193:

  Brenda suddenly stiffened in her chair and half turned her ear to the window, silent like an animal waiting to spring, an alertness that transformed her face to temporary ugliness. Arthur noticed it,

  'He's coming', she said 'i heard the gate open.'In this short passage, the writer succeeds in creating

  Options:
  A) anti-climax
  B) pity
  C) comic relief
  D) suspense
  E) characters.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1194: The characters of Joe and Biddy are contrasted with those of Pip and Estella in order to show Options:
  A) the advantages of formal education
  B) the advantages of simplicity, sincerity and true love
  C) the advantages of of sophisticated high-class living
  D) the difference between urban and rural people
  E) that constrast is an inevitable aspect of characterization in a novel.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1195:

  Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

  Options:
  A) Poetry
  B) Prose
  C) Aroma
  D) Drama
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1196:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1197:

  'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.

  The poet of these lines

  Options:
  A) shows cheap love
  B) is incapable of seriousness
  C) consider heaven's cloth worthless
  D) is a sensitive, serious lover
  E) is an unrealistic, wishful man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1198:

  The combination of two or more metaphors is called

  Options:
  A) Monometaphor
  B) Dymetaphor
  C) Mixed metaphor
  D) Combined metaphor
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1199:

  A transferred epithet is popularly known as a/an ........

  Options:
  A) Epistrophe
  B) Ellipsis
  C) Hypallage
  D) Hendiady
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1200: Star, hide your fires;
  Let not light see my black and deep desires
  The eye winks at the hand; yet let that be
  Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
  In these lines, Shakespeare uses Options:
  A) Hyperbole
  B) Metonymy
  C) Onomatopoeia
  D) Simile
  E) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is B .