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 61:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 62:

  This question is based on Selected Poems from Johnson, R et al(eds): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed); Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E, and Vicent, T.(ed.):

  A Selection of African Poetry; Gbemisola A.: Naked Soles; Hayward, J.(ed.); The Penguin Book of English Verse and Nwoga, D.(ed.): West African Verse.One of the thematic preoccupations of Awooner's The Anvil and the Hammer is

  Options:
  A) clash of cultures
  B) revival of colonalism
  C) the changing face of colonial masters
  D) the good attributes of colonalism
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 63: Brother Jero himself identifies ONE of the following as his main weakness Options:
  A) Avarice
  B) Treachery
  C) Lustfulness
  D) Self-doubt
  E) condemnation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 64: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  .....So tedious is this day
  As is the night before some festival
  To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them'.
  What makes Juliet's night so tedious is the
  Options:
  A) murder of Tybalt by Romeo
  B) arranged marriage between her and Paris
  C) eagerness to be married to Romeo
  D) unconsummated marriage with Romeo
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 65: This question is based on Literary AppreciationIf I cannot slaughter other tribes men If I do not say my prayer in the morning If I turn my back on some of your advice... Is meal Heron:Pardon me.The repetition in the lines above is a poetic device of Options:
  A) plagiarism
  B) anaphora
  C) paralipsis
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 66:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.'If my dear Hastings be out constant, i make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. '

  The lines above in the play are delivered by

  Options:
  A) Kate
  B) Tony
  C) Marlow
  D) Constance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 67:

  'Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;

  And, we like friends, will straightway go together'. This statement by Julius Caesar is an example of

  Options:
  A) dramatic dialogue
  B) monologue
  C) mistaken identity
  D) dramatic irony
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 68:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  A story, exemplifying a moral thesis, in which animals talk and act like human beings, is called

  Options:
  A) an anecdote
  B) a parable
  C) a fable
  D) an exemplum
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 69: Based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, According to the novel Nnaife becomes frustrated when Options:
  A) his wife gives birth to female twins
  B) he is recruited into the army
  C) Oshiaju secures a scholarship to study abroad
  D) he is arrested and charged for attempted murder of his inlaw
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 70:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .