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 1661:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1662:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

  Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

  The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

  Options:
  A) all the six bodyguards deserted the king
  B) ofof the seven bodyguards, only came back
  C) all the four bodyguards were killed
  D) of the five bodyguards, only one came.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1663:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool, unruly sun,

  Why dost thou thus." J. Donne:The Sun RisingFrom the lines above, the poet sees the sun as

  Options:
  A) illumination after darkness
  B) an unnecessary evil
  C) a necessary evil
  D) a light provider
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1664:

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) nemesis
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1665: These questions are based on general Literary principlesThe metric pattern in a line of poetry with five stressed and five unstressed syllabus is Options:
  A) trochaic decametre
  B) iambic pentametre
  C) anapestic metre
  D) dactylic metre
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1666:

  'He was a living example of the astonishing results that can occur when Western hypocrisy and commercial materialism are grafted on to a first rate African intelligence.'

  The character described in the passage is the father of

  Options:
  A) Niam
  B) Endongolo
  C) Zambo
  D) Medza
  E) Duckfoot Johnny
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1667:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter .

  'Was it madness, weakness, irresistible love?

  What inner confusion led Modou Fall to marry Binetou?...

  Ramatoulaya finds the answers to these questions in

  Options:
  A) the inherent weakness of man
  B) the Islamic tradition
  C) human destiny
  D) the fickleness of human nature
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1668: 'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over?'In this passage, lofty scene refers to Options:
  A) a great event
  B) the meeting of the conspirators
  C) the funeral of Caesar
  D) a scene acted on a raised platform
  E) the assassination of Caesar.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1669:

  The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) euphemism
  C) pun
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1670: S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about Options:
  A) a dream world
  B) the world of demon lovers
  C) the river Alph
  D) a sunless sea
  E) sunny spots of greenery.
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  The correct answer is B .