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 621:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker 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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation, the dominant literary technique deployed is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) onomatopeia
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 622:

  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 623: The antagonist in a tragedy is Options:
  A) any character in the tragedy
  B) the wife of the protagonist
  C) the character who provides comic relief
  D) the character set in opposition to the main character
  E) the leading chorus.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 624: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.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 million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 625:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  ...What would Sergius, the hero of Slivnitza, say if he saw me now? What would Sergius, the apostle of higher love, say if he saw me now?

  What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say if they caught us here?''

  These questions are addressed to

  Options:
  A) Louka
  B) Sophia
  C) Raina
  D) Catherine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 626:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) exposition
  C) structure
  D) symbol
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 627:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  '' Old father, old artificer

  Bear me now and ever in good stead''

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce.

  The word 'artificer' describes

  Options:
  A) a sage
  B) a craftsman
  C) a magician
  D) an artificial person
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 628:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  'See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand;

  O! that I wore a glove upon that hand

  That predominant figure of speech in these lines is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) apostrophe
  C) caricature
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 629:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to

  Options:
  A) be heavilymoralistic
  B) be clearly cohesive
  C) possess the unities
  D) have tragic elements
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 630:

  "I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

  Options:
  A) Aspotrophe
  B) Alliteration
  C) Repetitiion
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is C .