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 1601: The speech made at the end of a dramatic performance is generally called Options:
  A) a prologue
  B) an epilogue
  C) a dirge
  D) a monologue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1602: "Keats" "Ode" to a Nightingale" can best be described as Options:
  A) an appreciation of nature
  B) an appreciation of the beauty of the nightingale
  C) a reflection ont he uncertainties of life
  D) a description of nature
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1603:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repitition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1604: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The play is about love Options:
  A) longing and ambition
  B) pretence and hatred
  C) loss and death
  D) commitment and marriage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1605: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native SonThe story is narrated using the Options:
  A) Omniscient
  B) limited omniscient
  C) objective
  D) first person
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1606:

  Group of lines are called _____

  Options:
  A) Sentences
  B) Stanzas
  C) Danzas
  D) Line Grouping
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1607: This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.''O incomprehensible God!Shall my pilot be''These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the Options:
  A) mystery of existence
  B) omnipotence of God
  C) duality of life
  D) inevitability of death
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1608: The combined reactions of the plebeians after the separate speeches of Brutus and Antony show that the common man as portrayed in Julius Caesar Options:
  A) is knowledgeable, has a mind of his own, and is reable
  B) is fickle-minded, changeable and not dependable
  C) consider Caesar a tyrant and wants him killed
  D) does not consider Caesar an over- ambitious man deserving death
  E) is actually unconcerned whether Caesar dies or lives
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1609:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Zeugma is a figurative device in which a

  Options:
  A) noun refers to two parts of an expression
  B) conjunction governs two parts of an expression
  C) verb refers to two parts of an expression
  D) pronoun governs two parts of an expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1610: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .