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 401:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  Options:
  A) sharks' predatory inclination
  B) futility of human struggle
  C) old man's lack of faith
  D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 402:

  "The bees are buzzing and humming with great zest.

  The doves are cooing, and the children chatter as they clatter downstairs to come and dabble in the cool system.Use the extract above to answer the question belowThe predicament sound device in the extract is

  Options:
  A) assonance
  B) consonance
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 403: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 404:

  'Just because i am an Ijebu man, and do not belong to your tribe, the sight of me as your king gnaws at your liver, and rips your heart asunder...'

  The speaker's statement is prompted by

  Options:
  A) guilty conscience
  B) oedipus complex
  C) delusive grandeur
  D) persecution complex
  E) patriotic fervour.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 405: A significant of a whole through its significant part is Options:
  A) allegory
  B) pun
  C) synecdoche
  D) cast
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 406:
  From the novel; Othello

  The setting of Shakespeare's Othello is____________

  Options:
  A) Verona
  B) Venice
  C) the Faroe Islands
  D) Bulgaria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 407:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever'.

  Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

  The aesthetic appeal of this seduction emanates from the predominant use of

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 408: The major source of action in any narrative is Options:
  A) exposition
  B) conflict
  C) climax
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 409:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Everywhere now, freedom is on the loose And in its name, men and women slaughter One another with terrible abandon Carnage has become the means of Setting simple scores with our friends'

  Okinba Launko: Pain Remembers, Love Rekindles

  The dominant rhetorical device in the poem above is

  Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) assonance
  C) oxymoron
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 410: A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called Options:
  A) am elegy
  B) an eulogy
  C) a sonnet
  D) an ode.
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  The correct answer is A .