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 671:

  » This question is based on Literary Principles.

  LINDA: (hearing WILLY outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation):

  Willy WILLY: Its all right, I came back.

  LINDA: Why? What happened? (slight pause). Did something happen, Willy?

  WILLY: No, nothing happened.

  Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

  Willy's first words show that his coming back is

  Options:
  A) ill-timed
  B) too early
  C) not expected
  D) normal
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 672:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  Aunty Nabou's subtle influence over young Nabou was developed and effected through

  Options:
  A) formal education
  B) family ties
  C) oral education
  D) maternal authority
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 673:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  Zeugma is a figurative device in which a

  Options:
  A) noun refers to two parts of an expression
  B) conjunction governs two parts of an expression
  C) verb refers to two parts of an expression
  D) pronoun governs two parts of an expression
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 674:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?

  Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's

  The literary device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pun
  D) run-on-line
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 675:

  'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
  And whisper to their souls, to go
  Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
  The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'
  John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) conversational
  B) imaginative
  C) serious
  D) appreciative
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 676:

  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 and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's 'My Last Duchess', the Duke complains that his wife is

  Options:
  A) a snob
  B) a coquette
  C) a spendthrift
  D) disrespectful
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 677: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) a simile
  C) a personification
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 678:
  From the novel; Morountodun

  This question isbased on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  The stage direction at the end of the play reveals

  Options:
  A) the actors in a changing room
  B) Mama Kayode raising the song of hope
  C) Moremi and Titubi in harsh spotlight
  D) the Director making a farewell speech
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 679: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 680:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero is aptly described in the play as

  Options:
  A) neat
  B) suave
  C) polished
  D) lofty
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  The correct answer is B .