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 71: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A structural arrangement of units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 72: He is a faithful liarThe line above is an example of Options:
  A) epigram
  B) oxymoron
  C) euphemism
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 73:

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

  ''A wife must understand once and for all, and must forgive; she must not worry herself about 'betrayals of the flesh. The important thing is what there is in the heart.''

  These words are spoken by

  Options:
  A) Tamsir in breaking the news of Modou's second marriage to Ramatoulaye
  B) Modou in support of his relationship with Binetou
  C) Aunty Nabou in trying to convince Mawdo to marry her niece
  D) Mawdo Ba to justify his marrying Nabou out of a sense of duty
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 74: ''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 75: A sub-plot is Options:
  A) a major turn or complication in the main story
  B) the second part of the main plot
  C) a secondary plot dealing with a different theme
  D) an aspect of the main plot recited by a different narrator
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 76:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  'She bore a mind that envy could not but call fair' The statement above characterizes

  Options:
  A) Maria
  B) Olivia
  C) Roderigo
  D) Viola
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 77: A play is a tragedy when _______ Options:
  A) the author presents life as a hopeless adventure
  B) the main character dies before the play ends
  C) there is much bloodshed in the play
  D) a weakness in the main character leads to his downfall
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 78: A poem that describes the simple life of rural people is called ___ Options:
  A) elergy
  B) ode
  C) lyrics
  D) pastoral
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 79:

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives' Revolt

  The tradition of Erhuwaren endorses

  Options:
  A) polyarchy
  B) anarchy
  C) matriarchy
  D) patriarchy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 80:

  'Earth has not anything to show more fair.

  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  A sight so touching in its majesty:

  This city now doth, like a garment, wear

  The beauty of the morning'.

  It is suggested in this lines that

  Options:
  A) the beauty of the morning gains from the beauty of the city
  B) the beauty of the city gains from the beauty of the morning
  C) the beauty of the city and the beauty of the morning are unrelated
  D) the beauty of the same has nothing to do with either the city or the morning
  E) there is no beauty on earth
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  The correct answer is B .