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 1181:

  Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

  The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  Options:
  A) trance
  B) drowning
  C) forgetfulness
  D) labyrinth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1182: Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of Options:
  A) repetition of symbolic references
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) exaggeration
  D) flowering language.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1183: A poem of mourning and dedicated written on the death of an individual is called Options:
  A) am elegy
  B) an eulogy
  C) a sonnet
  D) an ode.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1184:
  From the novel; Othello

  The setting of Shakespeare's Othello is____________

  Options:
  A) Verona
  B) Venice
  C) the Faroe Islands
  D) Bulgaria
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1185:

  In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) acoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1186:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Fights by the book of arithmetic

  The figure of speech in the line above is

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) euphemism
  C) litotes
  D) innuendo
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1187:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  The subject matter of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the road
  B) death
  C) the vehicle
  D) the driver
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1188: This question is based on General Literary Principles.A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) tetrametre
  C) assonance
  D) caesura
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1189:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

  Drink

  Life to the lees, all times I have

  Enjoyed

  Greatly, have suffered greatly"

  A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) is determined to suffer
  B) has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) will cure his sour mood
  D) will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1190:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'America! there it lay, handy and tantalizing, allheat and scurry. All morning they had kept catching glimpses of it beyond the potholes as they stood in long lines, waiting to reach the tables where the immigration men in dacrion shirts checked their visas, inspected the X-ray pictures of their lungs that they held in their hands, decided whether to admit them or not. Getting into America was, it seemed, quite as hard as getting into heaven; and the trouble was... that as with heaven one couldn't know whether one would like it when one got there'.

  The picture of America presented in this passage is that of a place

  Options:
  A) of unknown and uncertain qualities
  B) choked with red tape
  C) as inviting as heaven itself
  D) off-putting on account of the heat
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  The correct answer is A .