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 261:

  "...Rage is Chief
  Rage drags rags after you, of Charity
  Laughter, sweetness and light, Rage is thief
  Enemy of equanimity"

  The figure of speech dominant in these lines is _____

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 262:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 263:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....How can i look at Oyo and say i

  Hate long shiny cars? How can i

  Come to the children and despise

  International schools?

  And Koomson comes, and the

  Family sees Jesus Christ in him....The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 264:

  "The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: "Casualties"

  The poet in the excerpt above uses

  Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) aliteration
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 265: Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he Options:
  A) is used as a foil to Pip
  B) provides the comedy in the story
  C) helped to bring Pip up by hand
  D) nursed Pip when he was sick in London.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 266:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation."Busy old fool

  Unruly sun

  Why dost thou thus

  Through windows

  And through curtains

  Call on us?" J. Donne: The Sun RisingThe figure of speech involved in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) pun
  C) simile
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 267:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 268:

  'Is Aderopo jealous that i am sharing a bed with his mother? Very well then, let him come and sleep with his mother'.

  Odewale's statement is a good example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) pun
  C) irony
  D) sarcasm
  E) jargon.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 269:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Cast in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) all the actors
  B) three of the actors
  C) a few of the actors
  D) an exclusive social class in the play
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 270: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  The attitude of Nnu Ego when she was told that her >i>Chi would not give her a child is one of Options:
  A) indifference
  B) despair
  C) apathy
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .