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 1751:

  These question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.'Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; A villain that is hither come in spite, To scorn at our solemnity this night.'

  The villain in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) engaging in a shouty match
  B) holding a sword to commit murder
  C) attempting to steal
  D) attending a feast uninvited
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1752:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synedoche
  D) metonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1753:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) tragedy
  B) nemesis
  C) catharsis
  D) hubris
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1754:

  'Tired teachers wipe

  The chalk dust

  On their faces

  The school dam bursts

  Ans floods of hungry children

  Melt into their mother's bosoms'.In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) alliteration
  D) cadence
  E) inversions.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1755:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go.

  Whilst some of their sad friends do say '' The breath goes now', and some say ''No''

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) appreciative
  B) serious
  C) imaginative
  D) conversational
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1756:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1757: In his judgement over the elders,Ovonramwen reveals his preference for Options:
  A) diplomacy
  B) intimidation
  C) loyalty
  D) consensus
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1758:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Which of the following divisions is used as`a technical device to denote the symbolic significance of certain events?

  Options:
  A) Day, morning and afternoon
  B) Morning, noon and night
  C) Morning, evening and midnight
  D) Mid-day, midnight and morning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1759: Naipaul's The Middle Passage is best described as Options:
  A) a novel
  B) a tragic play
  C) an autobiography
  D) a satire
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1760: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  In the novel, Big Brother metaphorizes a Options:
  A) totalitarian authority
  B) benevolent leader
  C) revolutionary leader
  D) party brotherhood
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  The correct answer is A .