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 1801: 'Assonance' is the product of a poet's use of Options:
  A) masculine ryhme
  B) many consonant
  C) regular ryhme
  D) similar sounding vowels
  E) imaginative metaphors.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1802:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  Titubijoins the farmer's revolt

  Options:
  A) to ensure it's success
  B) as a spy for the establishment
  C) in pursuit of Marshal
  D) to defy the police
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1803:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

  Options:
  A) Susan Newson sees Henchard at Casterbridge
  B) Elizabeth-Jane discovers her true father
  C) Farfrae gets married to Elizabeth-Jane
  D) Farfrae becomes the Mayor of Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1804:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In my last Duchess', the poet complains about the Duchess'

  Options:
  A) indiscriminate love and admiration
  B) unrestrained blushing
  C) officious fool
  D) intermitent smiles
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1805:

  Stars hide your fires;

  Let no light see my black and deep desires

  They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eyes fears, when it is done to see'

  In these lines Shakespare uses

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) metonymy
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) simile
  E) apostophe
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 1806:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1807: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1808:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  Mrs. Hard: ..Anybody that looks in his face may

  see he's consumptive.

  Hard: Ay, if growing too fat be one of

  the symptoms.

  Mrs. Hard: He coughs sometimes,

  Hard: Yes, when his liquor goes the wrong way

  Mrs. Hard: I'm actually afraid of his lungs.

  Hard: And truly so am I;...

  What takes place immediately after this brief exchange?

  Options:
  A) Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle exit
  B) Tony walks across the stage
  C) There is a knocking at the door
  D) Kate enters begging for calm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1809: This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.__________decides that Juliet should marry a young man named Paris, who has been asking for her hand Options:
  A) Friar Laurence
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Balthasar
  D) Friar John
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1810: The role of the Storyteller in The Marriage of Anansewa is that of a Options:
  A) bearer of false rumours
  B) trickster
  C) commentator
  D) suiter
  E) Chiefs messenger
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  The correct answer is C .