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 1241:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The author of a novel sustains readers' interest through the use of

  Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) anecdotes
  C) prologue
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1242: In the poem, 'The Cathedral', Kofi Awoonor expressed Options:
  A) sorrow at the disappearance of his village
  B) his feeling about traditional religion
  C) disapproval of the change from Africa's past life to the present modern
  D) anger at life slavery and colonialism
  E) his approval for the building of a cathedral in his village
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1243: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1244:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The poet's mood in Gabriel Okara's 'The Fisherman's invocation' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) dissatisfaction
  B) anxiety
  C) contentment
  D) self-doubt
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1245:

  Group of lines are called _____

  Options:
  A) Sentences
  B) Stanzas
  C) Danzas
  D) Line Grouping
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1246: Amope was introduced as a character into The Trials OF Brother Jero primarily to dramatize the Options:
  A) tragedy of unfaithful wives
  B) near realization of the curse hanging on brother Jero
  C) disadvantage of marrying an uneducated woman
  D) evils of street trading by women
  E) evil nature of women in general.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1247:

  *For seven days it rained that June;
  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
  complained in his hair.
  John Updike, Wash

  The image set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) rain and flood in June
  B) discomfort and likely destruction
  C) the days of Noah
  D) an animal insects and fun
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1248: In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to Options:
  A) the abode of the dead
  B) the palace of Achilles
  C) the abode of the Gods
  D) the ringing plants of windy Troy
  E) the land of the idle king.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1249:

  '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 1250:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The word 'image' is associated with

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) mood
  C) tone
  D) abstraction
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  The correct answer is D .