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: A play is a tragedy when _______ Options:
  A) the author presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main character dies before the play ends
  C) there is much bloodshed in the play
  D) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 32:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.'The lines above from Tennyson's 'Ulysses' reveal the persona as

  Options:
  A) adventurous
  B) drunken
  C) lively
  D) restive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 33: The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes Options:
  A) racial prejudice
  B) falsehood
  C) truth
  D) moral indecision
  E) social classes.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 34:

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

  The way Louka carries out her duties as a maid at the Petkoff's household can best be described as

  Options:
  A) arrogant and insolent
  B) opportunistic and self-centered
  C) haughty and presumptuous
  D) bold and self-assured
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 35:

  A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) novella
  C) fable
  D) epistle
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 36:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

  Kofi Anyidoho 'Blood Harvest'

  The stanza above succinctly presents the

  Options:
  A) problem of war
  B) problem of hunger
  C) folly of soldiers
  D) repercussion of violence
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 37: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 38:

  In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

  Options:
  A) device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
  B) situation in which a character speaks or acts against the tread of events
  C) difficult situation which defies a local or rational resolution
  D) device in which the actor act on stage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 39:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 40: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the action in the novel is built around Options:
  A) Julia
  B) Big Brother
  C) Winston Smith
  D) O'Brien
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  The correct answer is C .