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 1301: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as Options:
  A) mime
  B) paradox
  C) criticism
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1302: In As You Like It, the verse which begins ' Blow blow thou winter wind' is about Options:
  A) a storm in winter
  B) man's ingratitude
  C) Duk Senior cave
  D) Le Beau's love for Snowballs
  E) Oriando's love for Rosalind
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1303: Leah was finally arrested by the police because she Options:
  A) was betrayed by an enemy
  B) was outwitted by the Fox
  C) did not offer a big enough bribe to the police
  D) bribed the wrong person
  E) became too militant.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1304:

  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 1305: In literature, a flat character can be described as one who Options:
  A) is undeveloped
  B) undergoes changes
  C) dies abruptly
  D) achieves greatness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1306:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) opposition
  B) heroine
  C) villain
  D) hero
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1307: In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays the roman plebeians as Options:
  A) fickle-minded
  B) strong-willed
  C) compassionate
  D) machiavellian
  E) enterprising.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1308: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) anecdote
  B) saturation
  C) hyperbole
  D) Satire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1309: Artistically, Okonkwo's seven years' exile is a device used by Achebe to Options:
  A) to introduce comic relief
  B) keep Okonkwo at a distance from the movement of the mind of Umuofia
  C) serve as a warning to other members of the Umuofia community
  D) shows that wilful crime does not pay
  E) de-emphizes the role of Okonkwo in the novel
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1310:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'One man with a head

  Shaven clean as a potato

  Whispered to the rising sun,

  A red eye wiped by a tattered

  Handkerchief of clouds.'

  Mtshali, 'Men in Chains

  The figures of speech employed in the lines above are

  Options:
  A) metaphor and onomatopoeia
  B) simile and metonymy
  C) metaphor and simile
  D) personification and onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .