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 841: Our attitude to the hero of George Elliot's Sill Marner is one of Options:
  A) contempt
  B) fear
  C) sympathy
  D) hatred
  E) none of the above
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 842: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, Winston writes that the hope of the country lies on the Options:
  A) ministry of the truth
  B) proles
  C) party
  D) children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 843:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

  Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

  The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

  Options:
  A) a suspenseful opening
  B) an appropriate setting
  C) short clear sentences
  D) images of violence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 844: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 845:

  "... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: Casualties"

  The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Personification
  C) Synecdoche
  D) Metonymy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 846:

  'No; This my hand will rather

  The multitudinous seas incarnadine

  Making the green and red .'

  In the above lines the figure of speech used is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) simile
  C) hyperbole
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 847:

  Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
  Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.

  The lines above are a good example of_________

  Options:
  A) caricature
  B) ridicule
  C) satire
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 848:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 849:

  The mood of Diop's 'Vanity' is__________

  Options:
  A) expressed through rhetorical questions
  B) condemnation
  C) expressed through the use of innuendos
  D) concern
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 850:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Though we knew that something was wrong with our society, we made no attempt to assess it.

  Trinidad was too unimportant and we could never be convinced of the value of reading the history of a place which was, as everyone said, only a dot on the map of the world.

  The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul

  The writer here maintains that Trinidad

  Options:
  A) was too insignificant to have a history
  B) was so small that its people did not value its history
  C) was a mere dot and did not therefore attract people's attention
  D) lacked historical significance bcause it could not compete with the rest of the world.
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  The correct answer is B .