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:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1192:

  'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me

  Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?

  The speaker of these words is the father of

  Options:
  A) Bikokolo
  B) Niam
  C) Albert
  D) Medza.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1193:

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

  In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) ideas
  C) sentiment
  D) prowess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1194: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The chorus in the prologue of the play is essentially meant to Options:
  A) foreshadow the play
  B) highlight the characters
  C) estimate the actions
  D) introduce the play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1195:

  In Animal Farm, the song

  'Beasts of England, beast of Ireland,

  Beasts of every land and clime,

  Hearken to my joyful tidings

  Of the golden future time.was first sung by

  Options:
  A) Snowball
  B) Squealer
  C) Old Major
  D) Napoleon
  E) Bluebell
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1196: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, As a symbol of marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on Options:
  A) childbirth
  B) wealth
  C) male child
  D) female child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1197:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

  Options:
  A) grasshoppers
  B) bed-bugs
  C) bat
  D) cockroaches
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  The correct answer is B .
• 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: This question is based on Ademiluyi's Options:
  A) digression and rubric
  B) intrigues and metaphors
  C) setting and design
  D) suspense and irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1200:

  In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) acoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .