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 581:
  From the novel; Witnesses to Tears

  This question isbased on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.

  The witnesses to the tears in the novelare

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 582:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 583:

  'But 't is strange:

  And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

  The instrument of darkness tells us truths,

  Win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences'.

  These words were spoken by

  Options:
  A) Banquo
  B) Macbeth
  C) Malcolm
  D) Lady Macbeth
  E) Macduff.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 584:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An exaggeration or overstatement in literature is a

  Options:
  A) hexameter
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) soliloquy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 585:

  He is a faithful liar

  The line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) antithesis
  C) epigram
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 586:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'Here lies a great and mighty king

  Whose promise none relies on

  He never said a foolish thing

  Not ever did a wise one'.

  The lines above could best from an

  Options:
  A) epistle
  B) episode
  C) epiphany
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 587:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  ''From here the island of Fogo is a presence

  At Sunset

  The palm trees are slow singers of farewell

  The sail on the sea

  Writes in geometry of spume

  - departure of he who remains

  And the clouds carried by incessant soft breezes

  -journey of he who never left!''

  Which of the following figures of speech is used prominently in the poem?

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) litotes
  C) hyperbole
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 588: The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called Options:
  A) prologue
  B) oxymoron
  C) apostrophe
  D) costume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 589:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that mourns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) bereaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 590:

  "They said their prayers in a monotonous sing-song,

  Kneeling on their bamboo bed like camels

  Waiting to be loaded."Based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal, the dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) simile
  C) metaphor
  D) mixed metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .