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 1761:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A metaphor in which objects, persons and events in a story are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself is

  Options:
  A) fable
  B) personification
  C) allegory
  D) symbolism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1762:

  'Earth has not anything to show more fair.

  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  A sight so touching in its majesty:

  This city now doth, like a garment, wear

  The beauty of the morning'.

  It is suggested in this lines that

  Options:
  A) the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
  B) the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
  C) the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
  D) the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
  E) there is no beauty on earth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1763:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Will no one tell me what she sings

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

  For old, unhappy, far off things

  And battles long ago.

  Or is it some more humble lay,

  Familiar matter of today?The lines above shows that the persona

  Options:
  A) so hates the words of the girl
  B) understands the girl's songs
  C) does not understand the girl's language
  D) is so much in love with the girl
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1764:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1765:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones time never shirking and never volunteering for extra either'.

  George Orwell: Animal Farm

  Form the passage above, the character being described is

  Options:
  A) enthusiastic
  B) altruistic
  C) cynical
  D) lazy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1766:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  X: What country, friends, is this?

  Y: This is lllyria, lady.

  X: And what should I do in lllyria?

  My brother he is in Elysium.

  Perchance he is not drown' d;....

  The dialogue above takes place

  Options:
  A) in the captain's ship
  B) in lllyria
  C) by the sea-coast of lllyria
  D) by the sea-coast after lllyria
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1767:

  'When the district Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound at the head of an armed band of Soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the "obi" He commanded them to come outside, and they obeyed without a murmur'

  This passage from Things Fall Apart suggests that one of the reasons why traditional African society disintegrated was that Africans are

  Options:
  A) weary lazy people
  B) very docile people
  C) peace-loving people
  D) military weak people
  E) inferior beings compare to white people.h
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1768: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to Options:
  A) draw sympathy for the old man
  B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
  C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
  D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1769: These question is based on General Literary Principles.Action without speech in a play is Options:
  A) epilogue
  B) mime
  C) soliloquy
  D) aside
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1770: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  Mrs.Joan Durbeyfield is portrayed as Options:
  A) reticent and deeply emotional
  B) strong-willed and boisterous
  C) pretentious and calculating
  D) fastidious and overbearing
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  The correct answer is D .