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 1241:

  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.

  In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

  Options:
  A) metaphorically
  B) literally
  C) imaginatively
  D) figuratively
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1242:

  'poisonous pleasure of wine' illustrates the use of_______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) metaphor
  C) oxymoron
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1243:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In drama, a conspicuous weakness in the character of the protagonist contributing to his downfall is referred to as

  Options:
  A) an anagnorisis
  B) a tragic flaw
  C) a catharsis
  D) a catastrophe
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1244: A couplet is a Options:
  A) succession of three rhyming lines
  B) succession of two rhyming lines
  C) poem of two stanzas
  D) poem of three stanzas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1245: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation'Though alien to this clime its capacity for bagging crime befits a legendary scion of the soil the brief sack with bulging stomach.'The poem achieves its significant effect through the use of Options:
  A) quatrain and imagery
  B) rhyme andsimile
  C) onomatopoeia and alliteration
  D) alliteration and personification
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1246:

  Tunde's long and vigorous speech was followed by a deafening silence.

  The phrase deafening silence is used as a figure of speech called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) hyperbole.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1247: 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 1248:

  "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

  Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

  And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Apothecary
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Lord Montague
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1249:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Jero's opening speech in the is a

  Options:
  A) soliloquy
  B) monologue
  C) narrative
  D) confession
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1250:

  A significant literary device employed by Morris in 'The Proud King' is that of________

  Options:
  A) Suspense
  B) Nemesis
  C) Agon
  D) Interlude
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  The correct answer is B .