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 1361:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1362: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for Options:
  A) eighteen months
  B) two decades
  C) twelve years
  D) fourty days
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1363:

  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 1364: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.One of the pictures Bigger sees on the pamphlet given to him by Jan is that of a Options:
  A) knife and a sword
  B) knife and gun
  C) hammer and a sickle
  D) matchet and a hammer
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1365:

  Read the extract below and this answer question.The pattering rain was kicking up little explosions of

  Dust in the glade. He heard the faint whisper of the stream

  As it stole across the land and disappeared into the bush.

  The underline expression in line 3 is

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) personification
  C) hyperbole
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1366:

  From that moment on he began to notice what was happening in town, but in a very inexact way, for Father Anthony Isabel, in part because of his age and in part also because he swore he had seen the devil on three occasions (something which seem to the town just a bit out of place), was considered by his parishioners as a good man, peaceful and obliging, but with his head habitually in the clouds.

  The phrase, something which seemed to the town just a bit out of place, is an example of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) understatement
  C) sarcasm
  D) synecdoche.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1367: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's mood at the beginning of the play can be described as Options:
  A) frustrated and pensive
  B) gay and elated
  C) melancholic and sentimental
  D) dreamy and hopeful
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1368:

  'Dead leaves blew into the room.

  And alighted upon my bed.

  Ans a tree declared to the gloom

  Its sorrow that they were shed'

  The mood registered in these lines is

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) depression
  C) gaiety
  D) happiness
  E) persimism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1369:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1370:

  The withdrawal of rest from man according to George Herbert in 'The Pulley' is particularly because_____

  Options:
  A) man by nature has the tendencies to be lazy
  B) of the need for human survival
  C) God wants man to feel less of himself
  D) of the space for God's worship
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  The correct answer is D .