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 1541:

  ... is the illustration which serves to persuasively sustain the interest of the readers in a literary piece

  Options:
  A) storyline
  B) narrative hook
  C) plot
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1542: "Stream of consciousness" is the name for Options:
  A) a narrative mode that produces a character's random thoughts and associations
  B) an italian rhyme scheme brought into vogue in the sixteenth century
  C) a stage device in the actor addresses the audience directly
  D) a cultural phenomenon of the eighteenth century
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1543: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to Options:
  A) draw sympathy for the old man
  B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
  C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
  D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1544:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) portagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1545: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as Options:
  A) epitasis
  B) protasis
  C) catharsis
  D) catastasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1546: Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
  Options:
  A) traditional poem
  B) a lyric
  C) dramatic monologue
  D) ballad
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1547:

  This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

  "To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

  Options:
  A) alliteration and personification
  B) onomatopoeia and simile
  C) metaphor and alliteration
  D) simile and personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1548: these questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.The constant companion of Nnaife's family are Options:
  A) poverty and hunger
  B) sickness and joblessness
  C) disagreemnt and humiliation
  D) togetherness and happiness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1549: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The subject matter of the novel is Options:
  A) exploitation and cruelty
  B) retributive justice
  C) class segregation
  D) totalitarian dictatorship
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1550:

  'I am jealous and passonate
  Like Jehovah, God of the Jews.'
  J.P Clark: Olokun
  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) paradox
  C) metaphor
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .