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 651: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs Options:
  A) when he sleeps on the boat for a few hours
  B) the night before his fishing expedition
  C) in his house
  D) at the end of the book
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 652:

  This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

  The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

  Options:
  A) dance and songs
  B) flashback.
  C) foreshadowing
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 653:

  In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) acoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 654:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 655:

  This question is based on THE GOOD MORROW.
  Use this excerpt to answer question

  "If ever any beauty I did see,
  Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."

  The excerpt above evokes the use of ____

  Options:
  A) Olfactory imagery
  B) Tactile
  C) Auditory imagery
  D) Visual imagery
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 656:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  What is represented by the characters of Henchard and Farfrae in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) contrast between the old and the new
  B) conflict between belief and unbelief
  C) conflict between a tragic and a comic hero
  D) conflict between foolhardiness and kindness
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 657: In As You Like It, the forest of Arden could symbolize Options:
  A) passion
  B) anxiety
  C) goodness
  D) wealth
  E) power
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 658:

  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.

  Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because

  Options:
  A) the poet had fought in many wars
  B) of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
  C) of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
  D) of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 659: This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
  Oh, the market is set like the hub of a wheel And it pulls like a magnet strong. It is easy to tell How it casts its spell And draws all the crowds along
  The sound device used in the extract above is
  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) emphasis
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 660: This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears.In the novel, the foil to Lahab's character is Options:
  A) Tanko
  B) AI-Amin
  C) Sagiir
  D) Saahir
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  The correct answer is C .