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 1161:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1162: Based on Asare Konadu's A Woman in Her Prime,Asogo is a game in which Options:
  A) mothers lure their babies to sleep
  B) fathers narrate animal stories
  C) boys abuse girls with music
  D) girls sing songs of praise and admonition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1163: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ariel is identified as Options:
  A) assistant to Sycorax
  B) leader of the spirits
  C) Prospero's daughter
  D) Alonso's wife
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1164:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1165: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters,Now look what we have:a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!'
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) suspense
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) oxymoron
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1166: According tp Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is Options:
  A) poor
  B) religious
  C) hopeful
  D) frustrated
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1167:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven

  Nowhere as absolute as the grave.

  The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is

  Options:
  A) an allusion
  B) a paradox
  C) an anecdote
  D) an oxymoron
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1168:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation'Careened,

  These oily tears

  Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,

  Will one day be staunched,

  I swear!

  Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears

  The tone of the poet is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) supplicatory
  C) sympathetic
  D) piteous
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1169:

  A limerick has

  Options:
  A) ornate style, humour, irony and seven lines
  B) formal and elaborate style and humour
  C) humour,rhyme scheme and five lines
  D) a stinging climax, rhyme scheme, and five lines
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1170:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  DUKE:... Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul. What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

  Options:
  A) The book of his relationship with Olivia
  B) The secret of his soul
  C) The details of his relationship with Viola
  D) The details of his relationship with Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .