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 781: Choose the most appropriate stress pattern from the options.The stressed syllables are written in capital letters departmental Options:
  A) DEpartmental
  B) dePARTmental
  C) departMENtal
  D) departmenTAL
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 782:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

  Options:
  A) burnt finger
  B) broken promise
  C) torn dress
  D) broken fence
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 783:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  The novel is set after which major war?

  Options:
  A) First World War (1914-1918)
  B) Aba Women Riot (1929)
  C) Second World War (1939-1945)
  D) The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 784:

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

  Which of the following character traits will apply to Lakunle?

  Options:
  A) Comic and absurd
  B) Stupid and simplistic
  C) Pompous and spontaneous
  D) Decisive and bold
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 785: ''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 786:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

  Options:
  A) regression
  B) cadence
  C) rhyme
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 787:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare' s Twelfth Night.

  Duke:

  Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,

  Rather than make unprofited return.

  Duke's statement above to Cesario means that he should

  Options:
  A) make trouble to see Olivia
  B) jump the fence to see Olivia
  C) shout be seen and heard by Olivia
  D) fortify himself against any denial to see Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 788: 'The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.'In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) irony
  D) onomotopoeia
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 789:

  Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

  Close bosom-friend of the mating sun:

  Conspiring with him how to load and bless

  With fruit the vines that round the

  thatch-eves run;

  To bend with apples and moss'd cottage tress

  And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

  To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells

  With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

  And still more, later flowers for bees,

  Until they think warm days will never cease,

  For summer has o'er brimm'd their clammy cells.

  The most important figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) personification
  C) metaphor
  D) simile
  E) onomatopoeia.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 790:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

  The atmosphere of Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is dominated by

  Options:
  A) joy
  B) hate
  C) love
  D) sadness
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  The correct answer is D .