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 341: As a literary from the short story is most closely related to Options:
  A) poetry
  B) the discourse
  C) tregedy
  D) the novel
  E) drama.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 342: The literary device which uses ridicule to correct social ills is known as Options:
  A) anecdote
  B) saturation
  C) hyperbole
  D) Satire
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 343: In Julius Caesar, one occasion when the misunderstanding of the ordinary people of Rome caused a big problem was Options:
  A) at the capitol when Caesar was given a crown
  B) at the capitol when Brutus and Antony addressed the Romans
  C) at the battlefield when Brutus attacked the army of octavius
  D) in the streets of Rome when Cinna the poet was killed.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 344:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'America! there it lay, handy and tantalizing, allheat and scurry. All morning they had kept catching glimpses of it beyond the potholes as they stood in long lines, waiting to reach the tables where the immigration men in dacrion shirts checked their visas, inspected the X-ray pictures of their lungs that they held in their hands, decided whether to admit them or not. Getting into America was, it seemed, quite as hard as getting into heaven; and the trouble was... that as with heaven one couldn't know whether one would like it when one got there'.

  The picture of America presented in this passage is that of a place

  Options:
  A) of unknown and uncertain qualities
  B) choked with red tape
  C) as inviting as heaven itself
  D) off-putting on account of the heat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 345: Zambia Shall Be Free is a Options:
  A) biography
  B) autobiography
  C) novel
  D) novella
  E) short story.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 346: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 347: A short emphatic, witty saying, often involving antithesis or paradox is an Options:
  A) epithet
  B) epigram
  C) invective
  D) impression
  E) analogy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 348:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 349:

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

  Lakunle:... To fetch and carry

  To cook and scrub

  To bring forth children by the gross

  Sidi: Heaven forgive you! Do you now scorn child bearing in a wife?

  What would Lakunle rather prefer to accomplish before child bearing ?

  Options:
  A) Good kissing habit
  B) Formal education
  C) Racial and sexual equality
  D) Church wedding
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 350: A poem that describes the simple life of rural people is called ___ Options:
  A) elergy
  B) ode
  C) lyrics
  D) pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .