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 951:

  The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

  Options:
  A) stanza
  B) rhythm
  C) rhyme
  D) verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 952:

  Choose the option that has the same rhymes with the given word
  Pad

  Options:
  A) paid
  B) mail
  C) mat
  D) made
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 953:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The images depicted are those of

  Options:
  A) poverty and opulence
  B) opulence and brutality
  C) suffering and depression
  D) suffering and brutality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 954:

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

  The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

  Options:
  A) Major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 955: In Mine Boy, the dominant shebeen queen who is described as 'tall and big, with the smooth yellowness of the Basuto women...'is Options:
  A) Ma Plank
  B) Leah
  C) Eliza
  D) Lena
  E) Maisy.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 956: In Gray's 'Elegy' the poor are Options:
  A) abused
  B) accursed
  C) romanticized
  D) praised
  E) admonished
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 957: A speech or writing used to praise a person or a thing for past or present deeds is Options:
  A) eulogy
  B) synecdoche
  C) epigram
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 958: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.The play is about love Options:
  A) longing and ambition
  B) pretence and hatred
  C) loss and death
  D) commitment and marriage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 959:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 960:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  X: What country, friends, is this?

  Y: This is lllyria, lady.

  X: And what should I do in lllyria?

  My brother he is in Elysium.

  Perchance he is not drown' d;....

  The dialogue above takes place

  Options:
  A) in the captain's ship
  B) in lllyria
  C) by the sea-coast of lllyria
  D) by the sea-coast after lllyria
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  The correct answer is C .