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 1921: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1922: Which of the following best describes Nwabunor in The Victims? Options:
  A) An industriouswoman plagued by bad luck
  B) A quarrelsome woman
  C) A jealous rival
  D) A shrewd calculating woman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1923:

  So fair fancy few would weave

  In these years!

  The poetic device consciously used here is

  Options:
  A) personification
  B) apostrophe
  C) alliteration
  D) oxymoron
  E) simile.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1924:

  "The sun used to smile in my hut".

  The line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) Rhetorical Question
  D) Zeugma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1925: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The party seeks power for Options:
  A) its own sake
  B) its members
  C) people's sake
  D) the nation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1926: In Shakespeare''s Macbeth, the central character-Macbeth-is Options:
  A) a Russhian general
  B) a Scottish general
  C) a Finnish general
  D) an English general
  E) a German general
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1927:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1928:

  » This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Willy's first words show that his coming back is

  Options:
  A) ill-timed
  B) too early
  C) not expected
  D) normal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1929:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 6 is an example of______

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Paradox
  D) Hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1930:

  ''But it is not the time
  To lay wreaths
  For yesterdays crimes...''

  Lenrie Peters in his poem, "We Have Come Home'' makes this statement because

  Options:
  A) the future is unpredictatble
  B) past sufferings are best forgotten
  C) there is no point crying over spilled milk
  D) mourning can be posponed
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  The correct answer is B .