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 1261: The marriage of Anansewa is a play based on Ghanian Options:
  A) politics
  B) traditional marriage ceremonies
  C) folktales
  D) lady macbeth could not sleep
  E) oral poetry
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1262:

  The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synecdoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1263: As the magi journey towards their destination, voices singing in their understand was Options:
  A) worthwhile
  B) uncertain
  C) foolish
  D) wise
  E) commendable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1264:

  Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

  Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

  Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

  To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

  Options:
  A) surprise
  B) lament
  C) uncertainty
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1265: Earth has not anything to; show more fair. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty. This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning.
  It is suggested in these lines that Options:
  A) The beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city.
  B) The beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning.
  C) The beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated.
  D) There is no beauty on earth.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1266: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The Ministry of peace is concerned with making Options:
  A) weapons
  B) wars
  C) reconciliation
  D) instruments
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1267:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

  Read the excerpt and answer question
  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1268: Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus Options:
  A) just as he is about to surrender to Antony
  B) as he is about to leave the forum after the assassination of Caesar
  C) just as he is about to address his fellow citizens
  D) after Cassius and Brutus have resolved their differences
  E) before Brutus receives the news of his wife's death.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1269: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1270:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .