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 2001:

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

  In the play, most characters act in ignorance while the audience is aware of the true situation. This is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic monologue
  B) dramatic irony
  C) comic relief
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2002: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A final stanza of a poem that is shorter than the preceding one is called Options:
  A) epanalepsis
  B) antithesis
  C) envoi
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2003:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

  Options:
  A) Major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2004:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  Golding writes that the pig's skull ''regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.''

  This implies that

  Options:
  A) Ralph was the only person with intuition and common sense left on the island
  B) Ralph knew right from the strt what would happen and refused to tell
  C) Ralph had powers of the occult which no one else knew
  D) Ralph was forewarned by Roger but would not disclose it
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2005: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  The atmosphere of tragedy in the play is created through the use of Options:
  A) dreams and foreboding
  B) fights and quarrels
  C) wars and hatred
  D) ideas and dramatization
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2006: The combined reactions of the plebeians after the separate speeches of Brutus and Antony show that the common man as portrayed in Julius Caesar Options:
  A) is knowledgeable, has a mind of his own, and is reable
  B) is fickle-minded, changeable and not dependable
  C) consider Caesar a tyrant and wants him killed
  D) does not consider Caesar an over- ambitious man deserving death
  E) is actually unconcerned whether Caesar dies or lives
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2007: The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) climax
  C) peripety
  D) euphemism.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2008:

  'Sweet are the uses of adversity

  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head'

  The speaker of the above lines from As You Like It' is

  Options:
  A) Jacques
  B) Orlando
  C) Adams
  D) Duke senior
  E) Le Bosu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2009:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) humour, rhyme scheme and five lines
  C) formal and elaborate style and humour
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme and five lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2010:

  The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Pun
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is A .