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 William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  'I will be brief, for my short date of breath is not so long as is a tedious tale.'
  The statement above is in reference to the speaker's
  Options:
  A) retirement
  B) imminent death
  C) state of health
  D) short-tempered nature
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 482:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's "Faceless" ended with________

  Options:
  A) an inclination of tragi-comedy
  B) an epilogue narrating how Baby T's spirit revenged her death
  C) an epilogue narrating how Fofo started her early childhood
  D) an inclination of indecisiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 483:

  A travelogue is

  Options:
  A) a record of the writer's experience during a journey
  B) the account of the experiences of an individual during his lifeline
  C) the account of the travails of a character in a novel
  D) a variant of a novel written in a free style on a writer's journey
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 484:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) ballad
  C) tercet
  D) quatrain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 485:

  In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'

  'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

  My sense as though of hemlock i had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',

  The poet uses

  Options:
  A) alternative rhymes
  B) heroic couplet
  C) bank verse
  D) octosyllabic metre
  E) terza rima.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 486:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 487:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' is cast in the mould of

  Options:
  A) a dirge
  B) a gossip
  C) an epistle
  D) a ditty
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 488: In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes Options:
  A) arrogance
  B) childishness
  C) intellectualism
  D) ignorance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 489:

  The other team was composed of much bigger boys than any we had in Galike and they chose the biggest of them all, sending him out like Goliath from the Philistines to challenge one of our team.

  In this passage Kenneth Kaunda makes his account of the fight more vivid through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetitious statements
  B) symbolic reference
  C) biblical allusion
  D) delibrate distortion
  E) hyperbolic comment.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 490: I am alone
  And the murmur of my lips carry song and tears homewards from a plain away from home
  Okogbule Wonodi. "Lament for Shola".
  The poet-persona here expresses a feeling of Options:
  A) love
  B) anger
  C) nostalgia
  D) sorrow
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  The correct answer is C .