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 281:

  "In the cold hand of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike

  Shrunk to a sub-soil grub

  His head was hallowed and his brain

  On scales-was this a trick to prove

  Fore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

  Options:
  A) juxtaposition
  B) rhetoric
  C) iambic meter
  D) allusions
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 282: Drama is essentially different from poetry because Options:
  A) always involve many characters
  B) exist mainly in action
  C) uses elevated language
  D) uses localized imagery
  E) deals with tragic experience
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 283:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'I thank you God for creating me black

  For making of me

  Porter of all sorrows

  Sitting on my head

  The World

  I wear the Centaur's hide

  And I have carried the World since the first morning'.

  'I Thank You God' by Benard Dadie

  The poet's attitude here is being

  Options:
  A) ironical
  B) whimsical
  C) sorrowful
  D) sarcastic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 284: This question is based on the Literary Appreciation'' To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower.Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.''William Blake, To Sea a World in a Grain of SandThe predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) hyperbole
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 285: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.What are the main motives of the British in the Beinin Kingdom? Options:
  A) Domination of the kingdom and its trade
  B) Mediation in Benin's domestic problems
  C) Elimination of Oba Ovonramwen
  D) Installation of a puppet regime in Benin Kingdom
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 286:

  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 287: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 288: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.
  "The drums overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Clark: CasualtiesThe poet in the excerpt above uses Options:
  A) litotes
  B) symbolism
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 289: Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by ________ Options:
  A) movement from serious to the light-hearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 290:

  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 .