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 211:

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

  Form the stage directions it is apparent that Oliver Goldsmith makes use of a

  Options:
  A) set each for the upper and lower classes
  B) different set for each Act
  C) variety of sets to suit the subject matter
  D) single set in the whole play
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 212:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  ''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

  At Sunset

  The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

  The sail on the sea

  Writes in geometry of spume

  - departure of he who remains

  And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

  -journey of he who never left!''

  Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) litotes
  C) hyperbole
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 213:

  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 214:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.A cursing rogue with a merry farce,

  A bundle of rags upon a crurch,

  Stumbled upon that windy place

  Called cruachan, and it was as much.

  The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

  Options:
  A) aabb
  B) abab
  C) bbaa
  D) abba
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 215:

  Criticism is a literary activity which seeks to

  Options:
  A) Find faults in a literary work
  B) Analyze and evaluate a literary work
  C) compare and contrast novels
  D) Discover the beauty of a literary work.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 216:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  A dramatic composition or musical play in which many or all the words are sung is called

  Options:
  A) an oratorio
  B) a motet
  C) an opera
  D) a concert
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 217:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.The wood decay,the woods decay and fall,

  The vapour weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and fills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.

  The subject matter of the line above is

  Options:
  A) death
  B) famine
  C) storm
  D) rainfall
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 218:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) contented
  B) indifferent
  C) anxious
  D) enthusiastic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 219: '...the toad likes water but not when the water is boiling'. King Odewale in the Gods Are Not To Blame uses this proverb to explain why he Options:
  A) he exiled himself from the home of his supposed parents.
  B) exiled Aderopo from his presence
  C) treated Baba Fakunle with disrespect
  D) no longer likes the land of Kutuje.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 220: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .