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: In Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka dramatizes Options:
  A) the fall of a great man
  B) the rise of a carpenters brigade
  C) the tragedy of Seyi
  D) the growth and development of political tyranny
  E) the distruction of a great African country
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1542:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  Santiago loses his catch to the sharks because

  Options:
  A) the blood attracts them
  B) he does not sail home early
  C) the sharks are predators
  D) it is too dark
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1543: The tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Abiku is Options:
  A) arrogant and cynical
  B) mysterious and cunning
  C) understanding but cynical
  D) kind and thoughtful.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1544:

  "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew

  The furrow followed free

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea."Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) free verse
  C) repetition
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1545:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '

  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

  The landscape described in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) formidable
  B) friendly
  C) hostile
  D) overpowering
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1546:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'He would hear the heavy uneven breathing of the child. It was as if she were carrying a weight with great effort up a long hill...He prayed again ''Father, look after her. Give her peace...Take away my peace forever, but give her peace'' Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.

  The man's reactions to the presence of the dying child show that he is

  Options:
  A) tolerant
  B) compassionate
  C) prayerful
  D) loving
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1547:

  Mock-heroic poetry elevates

  Options:
  A) the important tales of heroes of the past era
  B) trivial subject-matter by using the style of the classical epic
  C) the stripping off of appearances in a witty manner
  D) the beauty in human relationships as exemplified in Homer
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1548:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'You are the cold nests

  In which the migrant bird lays no eggs.'

  Kittobbe: To the Childless

  The device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) imagery
  C) metaphor
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1549: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1550:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's

  The death of Prince can be said to

  Options:
  A) portray Tess as a fated character
  B) reveal the family's total dependence on the animal
  C) cause Tesas'misfortunes
  D) foreshadow Tess'ultimate fate
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  The correct answer is B .