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 1511: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1512:

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

  Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is with him a codling when 't is almost an apple; it is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

  The images in the quotation above express the speaker' s

  Options:
  A) contempt and admiration
  B) hatred and pity
  C) contempt and disregard
  D) disregard and pity
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1513:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1514: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1515: This question is based on Amma Darko's Facesless.The street phenomenon in the novel is a universal theme because Options:
  A) It only occurs in Ghana
  B) It could be found only in Africa
  C) It is common to almost all nations of the world
  D) the novel is read in all parts of the world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1516:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1517: To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus our fear in Banqo stick deep. soon after these words, macbeth is dramatically 'attended'by Options:
  A) Banqo and his son
  B) two murderers
  C) lady Macbeth
  D) lady Macbeth and a servant
  E) Banqo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1518:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'.

  What baby is being referred to in the above statement?

  Options:
  A) The stillborn
  B) The reunion of Li and Habu
  C) Li's expected baby
  D) The meeting of Shuwa and her father
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1519:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1520:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  Which of the following BEST describes a balled?

  Options:
  A) Short literary song
  B) Short literary story
  C) Short story that contains a song
  D) Short song that tells a story
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  The correct answer is D .