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 1731:

  'A trouble shared is a trouble halved' illustrates the use of______

  Options:
  A) Paradox
  B) Cliche
  C) Pun
  D) Metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1732: Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) summarize a story
  D) describe a place
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1733: There knells a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's!
  The speaker uses a string of Options:
  A) Metaphors
  B) parables
  C) hyperboles
  D) riddles
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1734: The mood expressed in 'We Have Come Home' by Lenrie Peters is that of Options:
  A) hope and joy at one's return
  B) tension over the past and uncertainty of the future
  C) jubilation and a sense of achievement
  D) cautions optimism
  E) apprehension and defeat
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1735: The central organizing idea which unites character, action, language and style in a work of fiction is known as Options:
  A) theory
  B) plot
  C) theme
  D) characterization
  E) fable.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1736:

  'The celebration is now ended

  But the echoes are all around

  Whirling like a harmattan

  Whirl-wind throwing dust around

  And hands cover faces and feet grope'There are strong suggestions in the last lines that the occasion celebrated

  Options:
  A) brought peace to the land
  B) did not kead to joyful times
  C) did not recieve general approval
  D) produced more merriment
  E) affected climate conditions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1737:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  In the novel, Al-Amin's initial reservations about his daughter's engagement to Lahab are dormed by

  Options:
  A) a premonition of his death
  B) Lahab's doubtful morality
  C) Hussaina's immaturity
  D) his fear of loneliness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1738:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A poem written to celebrate one's wedding is

  Options:
  A) a pastoral
  B) an epithalamium
  C) a prothalamium
  D) a terza rima
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1739:

  This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________

  Options:
  A) Paragraph
  B) Theme
  C) Chapters
  D) Characters
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1740:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king who is poisoned in the Garden in the play-within-the-play is

  Options:
  A) Gozango
  B) Negtine
  C) Bernardo
  D) Hamlet
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  The correct answer is D .