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 2071:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

  '''I wish the boy was here...'''

  The old man's cry demonstrates

  Options:
  A) a desperation for productivity
  B) bitterness
  C) humiliation
  D) a yearning for human brotherhood
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2072:

  Ahero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?

  Options:
  A) Deuteragonist
  B) Periaktos
  C) Tragic hero
  D) Tragic flow
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2073:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2074:

  'I have wandered on the wilderness

  The great wilderness men call life

  The rain has beaten me,

  And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives'For the writer of these lines, living in an experience to be described as

  Options:
  A) pleasant
  B) difficult
  C) rewarding
  D) exicting
  E) bracing.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2075:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.
  Which character may be an allegory of Nigeria itself?

  Options:
  A) Baroka
  B) Sadiku
  C) lakunle
  D) Sidi
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2076:

  '...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,

  Sir, it provokes:it provokes the

  Desire, but it takes away the performance.'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

  Options:
  A) equivocation
  B) allusion
  C) paradox
  D) monologue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2077: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'My heart leaps up when I behold A rain in the sky:So was it when my life began;or Let me die!The Child is the father of the man;And I could wish my day to beBound each to each by natural piety.'William Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold>/i>The expression The child is the father of the man in the poem above is an example of
  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) ellipsis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2078:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) repetition
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2079:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2080: The 'curse' the old master put on Brother Jero is that he would Options:
  A) drown in water
  B) be killed by armed robbers
  C) come to ruin by women
  D) loss his prophetic visions
  E) die in a road mishap.
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  The correct answer is C .