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 481:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

  'We have been asleep, Mr. Speaker, my fellow citizens; asleep in our dream of security! Asleep in our well-meaning, sportsmanlike way of wishing the other fellow well. Asleep in the false security of accepting all men of goodwill who would be free as men of honor.'

  Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth.

  The force of the speech above is sustained on.

  Options:
  A) delivery
  B) musicality
  C) repetition
  D) oratory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 482:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  X: What country, friends, is this?

  Y: This is lllyria, lady.

  X: And what should I do in lllyria?

  My brother he is in Elysium.

  Perchance he is not drown' d;....

  The dialogue above takes place

  Options:
  A) in the captain's ship
  B) in lllyria
  C) by the sea-coast of lllyria
  D) by the sea-coast after lllyria
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 483:

  These questions are based on general Literary principles'Good warriors make others come to them and do not go to others... When you induce opponent to come to you,then their force is always empty,like attacking emptiness with fulness is throwing stones on eggs.'

  Zhang Yu: The Art of War

  The theme of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) folly of soldiers
  B) spurring people to action
  C) war
  D) inspiration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 484: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  A figurative device in which a statement is made and then withdrawn is referred to as Options:
  A) metanoia
  B) metaphysical
  C) metalanguage
  D) metalepsis
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 485:

  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.

  What is the dominant poetic device used in Christopher Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder?

  Options:
  A) Irony
  B) Symbolism
  C) Parallelism
  D) Rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 486: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 487: This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.Laye learns early in life that his society respects Options:
  A) spirits and ghosts
  B) human beings and spirits
  C) animals and witches
  D) gold and magicians
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 488:

  Read the extract below and answer this question.

  But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

  The subject matter of the above extract is

  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) house movement
  C) sea waves
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 489:

  "There's no art

  To find the mind's construction in the face...'Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,the above statement means that there is no

  Options:
  A) artist who can construct a face
  B) skill of reading thoughts from the face
  C) skill of differentiating the face from the mind
  D) artist who can understand a man
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 490:

  "The officer, surrounded by these noises,

  Was moved and a little embarrassed.He turned away

  To give them time to pull themselves together, and

  Waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser

  In the distance."Based on the novel Piggy's,in the above passage,Golding focuses on the

  Options:
  A) sympathy and pity the officer feels for the children
  B) contrast between savagery and order
  C) inability of the children to organize themselves
  D) children's emotional state and its consequences
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  The correct answer is A .