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 1281:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  The old man's experience is a lesson in

  Options:
  A) endurance and hardwork
  B) happiness and reliance
  C) indolence and regret
  D) achievement and celebration
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1282: This question is based on General Literary Principles.What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) characterization
  C) suspense
  D) plot
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1283:

  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 .
• Question 1284:

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

  Options:
  A) a constitutional provision
  B) a copyright
  C) an authority to write
  D) an author's right
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1285:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Duke:

  Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

  Rather than make unprofited return.

  Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  Options:
  A) make trouble to see Olivia
  B) jump the fence to see Olivia
  C) shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  D) fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1286:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.

  '...The python, seeking assurance of adulthood, measures his length with the palm tree ...

  Who is referred to as the palm tree in these lines?

  Options:
  A) The chiefs
  B) Ologbosere
  C) The royal wives
  D) The soldiers
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1287:

  Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

  Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:

  Conspiring with him how to load and bless

  With fruit the vines that round the

  thatch-eves run;

  To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress

  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

  To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells

  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

  And still more, later flowers for bees,

  Until they think warm days will never cease,

  For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.

  The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) onomatopoeia.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1288:

  What basically distinguishes literature from other disciplines is its________

  Options:
  A) use of creative imagination
  B) exposition of human experiences
  C) communication of ideas
  D) portrayal of places
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1289:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1290:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

  Options:
  A) four months
  B) five months
  C) two months
  D) three months
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  The correct answer is D .