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 911: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The part of a play when climax approaches is known as Options:
  A) epitasis
  B) protasis
  C) catharsis
  D) catastasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 912:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  The witnesses to the tears in the novel are

  Options:
  A) Saahir and Lahab
  B) Lahab and Hussaina
  C) Lahab and Sagiir
  D) Al-Amin and Hussaina
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 913:

  Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered She knows how every living thing was fathered,

  She calculates the climate of each star,

  She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care

  Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or featheredThe dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
  E) simile.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 914:

  This question is based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man the Sea.

  'Th old man was dreaming about the lions suggests that he is

  Options:
  A) going to hunt lions
  B) still determined and hopefu
  C) afraid of future struggle
  D) about to enter new jungles
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 915: A statement that appears to say something opposite to common sense or the truth, but which may contain a truth is Options:
  A) an oxymoron
  B) a parable
  C) an irony
  D) an inversion
  E) a paradox.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 916: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by Options:
  A) movement from serious to the lighthearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 917: Because he was transferred often, Kofi's father in 'The Narrow Path' Options:
  A) made a lot of money
  B) became a very famous headmaster
  C) love travelling a great deal
  D) could not train his children properly
  E) could save no money to build himself a house at home.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 918: Which of the characters in Abraham's Mine Boy is notorious for playing with a Knife? Options:
  A) xuma
  B) Leah
  C) Ma plank
  D) Dladia
  E) Joseph.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 919:

  'Dead leaves blew into the room.

  And alighted upon my bed.

  Ans a tree declared to the gloom

  Its sorrow that they were shed'

  The mood registered in these lines is

  Options:
  A) excitement
  B) depression
  C) gaiety
  D) happiness
  E) persimism
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 920: 'The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.'In describing the action of the climber, the writer has used the literary device of Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) irony
  D) onomotopoeia
  E) personification.
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  The correct answer is E .