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 1041:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'My heart is a quiet drum, sometimes it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle'.

  Cynthia James: Drumology

  The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

  Options:
  A) olfactory and visual
  B) olfactory and tactile
  C) auditory and visual
  D) tactile and auditory
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1042: 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 1043:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1044:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....How can i look at Oyo and say i

  Hate long shiny cars? How can i

  Come to the children and despise

  International schools?

  And Koomson comes, and the

  Family sees Jesus Christ in him....The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) alienation
  C) hope
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1045:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) demetia
  D) cleansing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1046:

  This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

  "She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1047:

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

  The pot of the novel revolves around

  Options:
  A) the adventure of a great fish
  B) a man's adventure on the sea
  C) a man's fightwith a great fish
  D) a boy's fight with a great fish
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1048: These questions are based on general Literary principlesPlays are basically meant to Options:
  A) change the world
  B) be read for pleasure
  C) be presented on stage
  D) keep people out of trouble
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1049:

  A poem is said to be good if it________

  Options:
  A) has elevated style
  B) has rhyme and reason
  C) is difficult to understand
  D) has a regular rhythm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1050: In poetry, the elegiac mood typically attends the occasion or experience of Options:
  A) triumph and fulfilment
  B) birth and growth
  C) death and decay
  D) joy and ecstacy
  E) illumination and discovery.
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  The correct answer is C .