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 1611: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1612: The night has been unruly. Where we lay. Our chimneys were blown down; and as they say lamentings heard i'th'air; strange screams of death And prophesying with accents terrible. Of dire combustion and confessed events. New hatch'd to the woeful time. The obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say the earth was feverous and did shake. This is the night . Options:
  A) when Banquo was murdered
  B) before macbeth was killed
  C) when the duncan and his men were fighting the enemy
  D) when macbeth went to see the witches
  E) when duncan was murdered.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1613:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Which of the following are literary genres?

  Options:
  A) Poetry, farce and faction
  B) Fiction, poetry and drama
  C) Drama, faction and biography
  D) Poetry , orthography and fiction.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1614:

  A folk-tale is a__________?

  Options:
  A) Novel
  B) Work Of Fiction
  C) Biography
  D) Novelette
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1615: The 'Myth of the Bagre' is recited at the Options:
  A) funeral of young men
  B) funeral of young women
  C) funeral of old men and woman
  D) coming of age of young men and women
  E) return of the ancestors.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1616:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1617:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1618:

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

  Options:
  A) a symbol
  B) an irony
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1619:

  No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.

  The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.'

  O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.The speaker in the passage is

  Options:
  A) reckless
  B) insane
  C) a coward
  D) a hero
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1620: In 'Fulani Cattle', the poet expresses Options:
  A) his belief that cattles are meant to be slaughtered by men
  B) regret that there will soon not be enough cattle to go round
  C) the idea that cattle are created strong to enable them endure the long journey from the north to the south
  D) sympathy for the cattle that are driven from the north to the south of Nigeria to be slaughtered
  E) admiration for the sharp knife with which the cattle are slaughtered.
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  The correct answer is B .