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 861: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The figure of speech in which the writer means the exact opposite of what he intends to say is Options:
  A) paradox
  B) metaphor
  C) satire
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 862: Since George Orwell was in fact writing about men while pretending to be writing about animals, his novel, Animal Farm can be classified as Options:
  A) a realistic novel
  B) an allegorical novel
  C) a naturalistic novel
  D) a novel of adventure
  E) a sentimental novel
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 863: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The major role of Mercutio in the play is to Options:
  A) serve as a contrast to Romeo
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) accompany Romeo to Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 864:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The most immediate service that Jero wishes to saddle MEMBER with at the end of the play is to

  Options:
  A) make him finance the building of a church
  B) use him to obtain land allocation
  C) use him to arrest Chume
  D) pay for his velvet cape
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 865:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is

  Options:
  A) subjective narrator
  B) objective narrator
  C) omniscient narrator
  D) participatory narrator
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 866:

  "....Put up thy sword

  Or manage it to part these men with me."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speech above was made when

  Options:
  A) Romeo and Paris engaged themselves in a fight
  B) Benvolio tries to separate the servants of the feuding families
  C) Tybalt challenges Romeo to duel
  D) Prince Escalus arrives to make peace between the families
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 867:

  What is the narrator of a poem called?

  Options:
  A) author
  B) speaker
  C) narrator
  D) Voice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 868: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A play is called a comedy when Options:
  A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
  B) nobody dies in it
  C) there is no serious quarrel in it
  D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 869: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 870:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME A dominant device which Ola Rotimi uses to suggest an authentic background in the play is

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) rituals
  C) proverbs
  D) songs and dances
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  The correct answer is C .