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 721:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  Which of the following divisions is used as`a technical device to denote the symbolic significance of certain events?

  Options:
  A) Day, morning and afternoon
  B) Morning, noon and night
  C) Morning, evening and midnight
  D) Mid-day, midnight and morning
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 722:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 723:

  'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves

  And mid May's eldest child

  The coming must-rose full of dewy wine

  The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.

  ('Ode to a nightingale')

  The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of

  Options:
  A) smile
  B) onomatopeia
  C) metaphor
  D) archaism
  E) metonymy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 724: This question is based on Richard Wright's Native Son.This novel can be described as Options:
  A) satirical
  B) metaphysical
  C) paradoxical
  D) allegorical
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 725: Part of the meaning of Kongi's Harvest lies in the fact that Kongi's final harvest is Options:
  A) a big yam
  B) respect
  C) disaster
  D) honour
  E) fame
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 726:

  'Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths; Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-lighgt i would spread the cloths under your feet: But |, being poor, have only my dreams; l have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams'.

  The poet of these lines

  Options:
  A) shows cheap love
  B) is incapable of seriousness
  C) consider heaven's cloth worthless
  D) is a sensitive, serious lover
  E) is an unrealistic, wishful man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 727: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 728:

  "A time to sow,
  A time to reap,
  A time to born,
  A time to die"
  This exemplies the use of ...

  Options:
  A) hendiadys
  B) chiasmus
  C) anaphora
  D) anadiplosis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 729:

  An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

  Options:
  A) props
  B) parody
  C) pyrrhic
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 730: This question is based on Ferdinand Oyono's Options:
  A) the whiteman's treatment of Meka
  B) Meka's treatment of the medal in the whitewashed circle
  C) people's unwillingness to talk about how whitemen treat them
  D) people's freedom of expression
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  The correct answer is C .