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 831: This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
  ''My heart thus pressing-fix'd my face and eye-with a sententious look, that nothing means...'In the lines above, the speaker implies that Options:
  A) his gesture means nothing
  B) he is a pious man
  C) he is being sentimental
  D) his heart is pressing against his face and eye
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 832: Tone and mood of a poem refers to Options:
  A) locale
  B) atmosphere
  C) setting
  D) space
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 833:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

  Options:
  A) Rosencrantz
  B) Yorick
  C) Sexton
  D) Fortinbras
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 834:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade;.

  The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

  The figure of speech used here is

  Options:
  A) pathetic fallacy
  B) similitude
  C) repetition
  D) zeugma
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 835: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Pun as a literary device deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arragement of words
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 836:

  We returned to our places,these kingdoms ,

  But no longer at ease here,in the old dispensation,

  With an alien people clutching their goods.

  I should be glad of another death.

  The author of these lines is

  Options:
  A) W.B. Yeats
  B) Chinua Achebe
  C) Thomas Hardy
  D) T.S. Elliot
  E) E.G. Okara
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 837:

  A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) novella
  C) fable
  D) epistle
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 838:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The theme of a literary work is the

  Options:
  A) dominant pre-occupation of the work
  B) interesting issues raised in the work
  C) different views on a particular topic
  D) psychological issues in the work
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 839: In which of the following London neighborhoods mentioned in Great Expectations is Mr. Jagger's office located? Options:
  A) Hammersmith
  B) Soho
  C) Warworth
  D) Richmond
  E) Little Britain.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 840:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .