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 811:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

  The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 812:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.
  Who is Mr Cole?

  Options:
  A) a black tenant at the first apartment at England
  B) Adah's colleague at the Consulate
  C) Adah's nephew she's forced to live with after Pa's death
  D) Adah's elementary school teacher
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 813:

  An overused expression is a/an _________

  Options:
  A) Cliche
  B) Cacophony
  C) Epigram
  D) Archetype
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 814:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  ''...It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.

  We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. soon submit to the burial mat.''

  In this passage, Ezeulu is pointing out to his son the wisdom in

  Options:
  A) moderation
  B) bravery
  C) cowardice
  D) sitting on the fence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 815: Orlando addressed the banished duke and his men roughly because Options:
  A) he was hungry
  B) he was greedy
  C) he was afraid
  D) he thought they were wild
  E) they refuse to give him food.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 816:

  Blake's 'The School Boy' advocates for____________

  Options:
  A) a fine balancing between work and pleasure for a child's development
  B) the liberty of the child to explore nature and life without restraints
  C) the promotion of the culture of excellence in a child's academic endavour
  D) a proper disciplinary culture for the training of a child
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 817:

  'Just because i am an Ijebu man, and do not belong to your tribe, the sight of me as your king gnaws at your liver, and rips your heart asunder...'

  The speaker's statement is prompted by

  Options:
  A) guilty conscience
  B) oedipus complex
  C) delusive grandeur
  D) persecution complex
  E) patriotic fervour.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 818:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  ''Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.''

  John Updike, Beech: A Book

  The tone of the passage above is

  Options:
  A) authoritative
  B) mocking
  C) appreciative
  D) scathing
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 819:

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

  '...But there have been

  No new reads cut by his servants

  No new cots woven..'

  It can be inferred from the above lines that

  Options:
  A) there has been no harvest in the village
  B) the Bale's sevants are lazy
  C) no children have been born recently
  D) the Bale's servants are revolting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 820:

  In drama, the antagonist is_____________

  Options:
  A) the director of the drama
  B) the evil witch
  C) the character opposing the lead character
  D) the “harsh guy
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  The correct answer is C .