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: In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare portrays the roman plebeians as Options:
  A) fickle-minded
  B) strong-willed
  C) compassionate
  D) machiavellian
  E) enterprising.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 342:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  'Friendship has splendours that love knows not.

  It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love'.

  The friendship referred to in these lines is that between

  Options:
  A) Binetou and Modou Fall
  B) Ramatoulaye and Daouda Dieng
  C) Modou Faill and Mawdo Ba
  D) Aissatou and Ramatoulaye
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 343: In ' Salute to the Elephant the line 'The elephant's head is his burden which he balances' suggests that Options:
  A) the elephant's head is so big that it does not allow the animal to move elegantly
  B) the elephant has a big head yet it moves elegantly
  C) the elephant's head is so big that it makes the animal look clumsy
  D) the elephant's head is so big that it prevents the animal from moving from one part of the forest to the other
  E) the elephant's head is like a big instrument for weighing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 344: 'His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds'. The repeated u sound in the above passage is an example of Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) consonance.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 345: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 346: This question is based on Literary AppreciationIf I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of Options:
  A) plagiarism
  B) anaphora
  C) paralipsis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 347: Girls dance and sing. Men clap .The walls sing and press inward. They press the men and girls, they press inward. They press the men and girls they press John towards a centre of physical ecstasy .Tom whom does 'they refer? Options:
  A) Men
  B) Girls
  C) Men and Girls
  D) The walls
  E) John and the girls
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 348: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  Winston Smith begins his rebellion against the power of the state by Options:
  A) purchasing arms
  B) keeping a private diary
  C) opposing the law
  D) educating the youth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 349:

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

  Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?

  Options:
  A) Comic and absurd
  B) Stupid and simplistic
  C) Pompous and spontaneous
  D) Decisive and bold
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 350:

  In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'

  'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

  My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',

  The poet uses

  Options:
  A) alternative rhymes
  B) heroic couplet
  C) bank verse
  D) octosyllabic metre
  E) terza rima.
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  The correct answer is D .