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 1391:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's "Faceless" ended with________

  Options:
  A) an inclination of tragi-comedy
  B) an epilogue narrating how Baby T's spirit revenged her death
  C) an epilogue narrating how Fofo started her early childhood
  D) an inclination of indecisiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1392:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1393: The speaker in 'When a Strainer Takes in Water invokes a series of natural impossibilities in order to Options:
  A) to display bhis magical powers as a traditional priest
  B) show the poetic beauty of incantatory songs
  C) show the marvel about natural objects
  D) practise witchcraft on his enemies
  E) psychologically and magically disarm his enemies.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1394:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1395:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The three main unities in drama are those of

  Options:
  A) action, time and place
  B) time, space and action
  C) place, time and space
  D) space, action and time
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1396: 'He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breath'. This passage achieves vividness through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) short sentences
  D) the past tense
  E) puntuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1397: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1398: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of Options:
  A) quatrain and imagery
  B) rhyme andsimile
  C) onomatopoeia and alliteration
  D) alliteration and personification
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1399:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.The body perishes, the heart stays young.

  The platter wears away with serving food.

  No log retains its bark when old,

  No lover peaceful while the rival weeps.From the poem above, "No lover peaceful while the rival weeps" means that

  Options:
  A) the pain of one lover is felt by the other
  B) there is no permanent love
  C) there is true and permanent love
  D) the two lovers weep together
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1400:

  The art of using persuasive words in literary works is known as_______

  Options:
  A) Rhetoric
  B) Dilemma
  C) Parody
  D) Paronomasia
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  The correct answer is A .