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 1571:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  The lines above are an example of a

  Options:
  A) light verse
  B) light opera
  C) limerick
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1572:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The term for the moral flaw or weakness that leads to the downfall of a major character in drama is

  Options:
  A) chaos
  B) hamartia
  C) denouement
  D) reversal
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1573:

  This question is based on Isidore Okpewho's The Victims.

  The fact that the Roman Catholic priest fears and believes that the white robed figures seen in the night are spirits confirms that

  Options:
  A) the priest was only an impostor
  B) superstition reigns superme in Ozala
  C) traditional religion will never succumb to Christianity in Ozala
  D) the pieces of stones these white robed figures carried away were indeed sacred
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1574: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of a line is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopoeia
  C) alliteration
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1575:

  THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.'You talk here in the public haunt of men.

  Either withdraw unto some private place,

  Or reason coldly of your grievances,

  Or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us'.

  This appeal is made by

  Options:
  A) Romeo to Mercutio
  B) Benvolio to Tybalt
  C) Benvolio to both Tybalt and Mercutio
  D) Romeo to both Mercutio and Tybalt.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1576:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a

  Options:
  A) hexameter
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1577: This question is based on selection poem from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W.. (ed.):Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.):A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka, C.T. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.):West African Verse
  The person in Houseman's To an Athlate Dying Young addressed the dead athlete using Options:
  A) monologue
  B) apostrophe
  C) dialogue
  D) admonition
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1578:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '...How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come back to the children and despise international schools? And then Koomson comes, and the family sees Jesus Christ in him ...

  The statement above reveals a feeling of

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) envy
  C) alienation
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1579:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

  The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1580:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .