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 661:

  'Was it for this you took such constant care

  The bodkin, comb and essence to prepare?

  For this your locks in paper durance bound?

  For this with tort'ring iron wreath'd round?

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) synecdoche
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) parody
  D) apostrophe.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 662:

  'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons

  The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'

  The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with

  Options:
  A) redemption from ignorance
  B) violence and oppression
  C) conversion from paganism
  D) the building of beautiful edifices.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 663: George Kweku Ananse in the marriage of Anansewa was Options:
  A) a tricker
  B) an exploiter
  C) a christain
  D) an orator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 664:

  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 665:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 666:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  '...Akosua Nowa has touched my manhood;

  Tell her, red ant upon the tree;

  If she passes this way, I am gone,

  I am gone to load my gun

  No matter how hidden deep her treasure,

  By my father's coffin I swear

  I'll shoot my way to it this day;

  Son of the hunter King

  There is liquid fire in my gun!

  ' Akosua Nowa' by Joe de Graft

  The beauty of this poem is built upon its

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) extended images of treasure and gun
  C) the protagonist's boastfulness
  D) the arrangement of the lines
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 667:

  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 668: This question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt below is___________
  "Now look what we have: a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!" Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) Oxymoron
  C) Alliteration
  D) Euphemism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 669:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 670:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Maanan expresses dislike for Lawyer B because of

  Options:
  A) his recent advances towards her
  B) the betrayal of her father's trust
  C) the betrayal of his wife's trust
  D) his condemnation of her choice of career
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  The correct answer is A .