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 31: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) secular sentiments
  C) religious sentiments
  D) erotic feelings.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 32: This question is based on General Literary Principles.An art that is both literary and theatrical is Options:
  A) a prose
  B) a poem
  C) drama
  D) prosody
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 33: A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as Options:
  A) exclamation
  B) litotes
  C) metonymy
  D) hyperbole
  E) antonym.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 34: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 35: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 36:

  "The all seeing sun

  Ne'er saw match since first the world begun."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The lines above were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Count Paris in praise of Juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Roseline
  D) Lady Capulet in praise of Roseline
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 37:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  'You know how to hurt with your tongue with your hands. But I don't care, now I've found out that whatever clay I'm made of you're made of the same...'

  What action of the speaker led to the reaction upon which she comments?

  Options:
  A) Eavesdropping
  B) Tale-telling
  C) Errand-running
  D) Gossiping
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 38: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and DaughtersPaternal aunt to Aaron and Maanan is Options:
  A) Fosuwa
  B) Hannah
  C) Mrs. Bonu
  D) Adwao
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 39:

  'O Julius Caesar!art mighty yet!

  Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords.

  In our own proper entrails'.

  These lines were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Cassius before the corpse of Brutus
  B) Cassius before the corpse of Caesar
  C) Brutus before the corpse Cassius
  D) Titinius before the corpse Cato
  E) Brutus before the corpse Portia.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 40: This question is based on Ernest Hemingway''s The Old Man the Sea.The skeleton of the fish is brought by the shore to Options:
  A) draw sympathy for the old man
  B) show the old man''s fruitless effort
  C) show that thje skeleton itself is useful
  D) mock the misadventure of the old man
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  The correct answer is D .