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 701: This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be descried as Options:
  A) dramatic epilogue
  B) dramatic monologue
  C) role-playing
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 702: ''Mother, didn''t you hear me? I''ve bought the goat, hen and yams. don''t you want them anymore? Why do you continue to look at me like that?I haven''t done anything wrong again, have i? Answer me, speak to me, mother!''The dominant mood in this passage is one of Options:
  A) sadness
  B) anger
  C) anxiety
  D) nonchalance
  E) joy.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 703:

  ''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

  This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

  Options:
  A) Gbossa
  B) Benue
  C) Nassarawa
  D) Jabu
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 704: Which of the following is a major source of interest in As You Like It? Options:
  A) The effective use of disguise
  B) The disappointment of lovers
  C) The fidelity of Shakspeare's characters
  D) The authors irreverent use of language
  E) The consistency of roles
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 705: ''When he was turned over, his eyeballs started upward in amazement and horror, his was locked torn wide: his trousers soaked with blood, were torn open, and exposed to the cold, white air of morning the thick hairs of his groin, mattered together, black and rust red, and the wound that seemed to be throbbing still''.The passage achieve realism through the use of Options:
  A) details
  B) simple words
  C) the long sentence
  D) the past tense
  E) punctuation.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 706: A couplet is a Options:
  A) succession of three rhyming lines
  B) succession of two rhyming lines
  C) poem of two stanzas
  D) poem of three stanzas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 707:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky

  That coin will flutter But the eagle will never fly.'

  Henry Dumas: America

  The poem above achieves its literary effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) parallelism
  C) repetition
  D) solecism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 708:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  '' The old man himself does not believe in it

  But when people see you doing something to get ahead, they become jealous and shout the slogans against you .''

  What is being referred to in these lines?

  Options:
  A) Christianity
  B) Pan Africanism
  C) Socialism
  D) Capitalism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 709:

  'Have you got any hands today?

  'No, i am working alone. My helpers are on strike

  'Would you like to engage me? My fees are reasonable.'

  'No thank you'.

  In this brief dialogue, the first line contains the device known as

  Options:
  A) syncedoche
  B) paradox
  C) oxymoron
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 710:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The most sensitive of Jero's disciples is

  Options:
  A) the Faithful Penitent
  B) Brother Chume
  C) the Old Couple
  D) the woman with the exposed thigh
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  The correct answer is A .