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:

  A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

  Options:
  A) Simile
  B) Aside
  C) Parallelism
  D) Irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 842: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Í am ugly but I can buy myself the most beautiful of women. Therefore I am not ugly....I according to my individual characteristics am lame but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
  Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor...I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless ? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself and is he who has power over the clever not more clever than the clever?
  The writer of the above passage is Options:
  A) jealous of rich and influential people
  B) overwhelmed by the power of money
  C) contemptuous of the poor
  D) indirectly exposing the negative influence of money
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 843:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

  Petkoff [grinning] 'Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about how he escaped after Slivnitza. You remember.

  About his being hid by two women'

  Since the phrase 'two women in the above extract refers to Petkoff's own daughter and wife, his grinning is a case of

  Options:
  A) sarcasm
  B) ridicule
  C) irony
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 844:

  'Cheers!' said koomson. he looked ready to add something as he raised his glass, but the high voice of his wife cut the air to pieces.

  'This local beer,'she was saying, 'does agree with my constitution.'

  'And what sort of constitution is it that you have?'asked the man from his isolated place.What the writer feels for or toward the woman in his passage is

  Options:
  A) love
  B) sympathetic understanding
  C) contempt
  D) respect
  E) difference.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 845:

  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 846:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have said too much unto a heart of stone

  And laid mine honour too unchary out'

  Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare

  The above lamentation is an example of a

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

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Soyinka's depiction of Brother Jero in the play is

  Options:
  A) literal
  B) graphic
  C) sentimental
  D) symbolic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 848:

  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 849: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being Options:
  A) obscene
  B) farcical
  C) comic
  D) didactic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 850:

  These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE."Listen...they will tell you...

  To beat drums is mere children's play,

  The adult's is to start echoes...The lines above from Launkos' End of the War, enhance the

  Options:
  A) language of the poem
  B) use of imagery
  C) rhyme of the poem
  D) rythm of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .