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 1291:

  This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

  To raise the reader's anxiety about the story, the author sometimes

  Options:
  A) stops the main story to narrate other events
  B) creates a lot of funny episodes
  C) puts too many difficulties in Adans way
  D) shows that Francis is weaks
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1292: In 'Ode to a nightingale' Keats celebrates the beauty of Options:
  A) a particular immortal Bird
  B) all nightingales
  C) artistic expression
  D) philosophical statement
  E) the nightingale Ruth heard
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1293:

  'Was it for this you took such constant care

  The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?

  For this your locks in paper durance bound?

  For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) parody
  D) apostrophe.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1294: "Behold her, single in the field
  You solitary Highland Lass!
  Reaping and singing, by herself
  Stop here, or gently pass!
  Alone she cuts and blinds the gram,
  And sings a melancholy strain,
  O listen! For the Vale profound
  Is overflowing with the sound.
  The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of The Solitary Reaper above is Options:
  A) abcbddee
  B) ababccdd
  C) alxabcdd
  D) abcbddef
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1295: This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.In Kunene's A Heritage of Liberation, freedom is to be achieved through the efforts of Options:
  A) the old generation
  B) new generation
  C) present generation
  D) successive generation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1296: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1297: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1298:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses

  Options:
  A) polyarchy
  B) anarchy
  C) matriarchy
  D) patriarchy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1299: In a play denouement is the Options:
  A) entry of the central character
  B) development of the central conflict
  C) introduction of the minor conflict along side the major conflict
  D) climatic point in the development of the plot
  E) the resolution of the conflicts in the plot.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1300:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated is an instance of

  Options:
  A) parody
  B) paradox
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .