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 161:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A metrical foot of two stressed or long syllables is called

  Options:
  A) a spondee
  B) a trochee
  C) an anapest
  D) an iamb
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 162: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 163:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  In Raina's view, if one is incapable of gratitude, he is incapable of any noble

  Options:
  A) attitude
  B) ideas
  C) sentiment
  D) prowess
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 164:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'

  John Updike, The Centaur.

  The long haul in the narrative above describes

  Options:
  A) a long strike
  B) Christmas and Easter holidays
  C) a long period of hard work
  D) a long vacation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 165:

  These questions are based on General Literary Principles.

  A play which mainly aims at provoking excessive laughter is called.

  Options:
  A) COMEDY
  B) A FARCE
  C) SATIRE
  D) A TRAGIC-COMEDY
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 166:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Comic relief is

  Options:
  A) the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
  B) a figure of speech used in comic theatre
  C) the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
  D) a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 167:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Syinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature-in-Enghish; Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D. I. (ed.)west African Verse.

  Arthur Nortje's Nightfall is written against the backdrop of

  Options:
  A) apartheid
  B) revolution
  C) celebration
  D) violence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 168: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Romantic poetry emphasizes Options:
  A) the beauty of nature
  B) intimate relationships
  C) the love in human nature
  D) the romance in human aspirations
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 169:

  This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et ai (eds): New Poetry African: Soyinka W. (ed): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent. T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry, U. Maduka, C. T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A. E. et al (eds): Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga D. I. (ed): West African verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.

  The excerpt below from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of'As if men hung here unbloom,

  Their mildewed buds of love like pollen

  Late caught, damp in a swollen...'

  The sound devise in the stanza above from Kalu Uka's 'Earth to Earth is

  Options:
  A) Onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) rhythm
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 170:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) opposition
  B) heroine
  C) villain
  D) hero
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  The correct answer is C .