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 441: The 'curse' the old master put on Brother Jero is that he would Options:
  A) drown in water
  B) be killed by armed robbers
  C) come to ruin by women
  D) loss his prophetic visions
  E) die in a road mishap.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 442:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The flat character in a literary work

  Options:
  A) is the same as the round character
  B) cannot be found in an allegory
  C) is capable of growing
  D) always embodies a quality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 443: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 444: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAt the peak of the trumpeter's performance, his cheeks were as if they were balloons and his eyes spoke many words. The literacy devices in the extract above are ________? Options:
  A) metaphor and paradox
  B) simile and metaphor
  C) simile and personification
  D) paradox and simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 445: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, two minutes hate is a programme designed for Options:
  A) parents
  B) thought police
  C) the community
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 446:

  'Was it so hard, Achilles,

  So very hard to die?

  Thou knowest and i know not-

  So much the happier am i'

  This verse is taken from a poem written by a soldier at the battle-front. He clearly sees dying in battle as

  Options:
  A) glorious
  B) patriotic
  C) brave and desirable
  D) a good experience
  E) he may be brave but undesirable.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 447:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.

  Cynthia James: Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) olfactory and tactile
  C) auditory and visual
  D) tactile and auditory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 448:

  Read the poem and answer questions

  At dawn must I rise to till the rock
  That our land has turned into
  The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
  Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
  Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
  Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
  For the life of fellow man by his fellow
  Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
  Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
  Communal loot has emptied our country silos
  The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
  Soldered tears has the moon shed
  The earth was scorched at noon-day night
  And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

  
  The theme of the poem is__________

  Options:
  A) drought and heat
  B) abomination and retribution
  C) sickness and death
  D) famine and disease
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 449: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 450:

  This question is based on Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days

  Yaremi's main job is

  Options:
  A) selling cassava
  B) harvesting cassava
  C) dyeing taffeta cloths
  D) sewing taffeta cloths
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  The correct answer is C .