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 1251:

  The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

  Options:
  A) nemesis
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) tragedy
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1252: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1253: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to Options:
  A) Princess Evbakhavbokun and herchildren
  B) Glogbosere and the other Benin chiefs
  C) Captain Carter and the British soldiers
  D) Queen Victoria and the British official
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1254:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call life: though unreal shapes be picture there,

  And it but mimic all we would believe

  With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,'

  P.B Shelley, Sonnet.

  The stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) quatrain
  B) couplet
  C) free verse
  D) limerick
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1255:

  This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  Grandma informs Li in the novel that her salt-pot is empty because

  Options:
  A) she wants to extract money from Li's pocket money
  B) she knows Li has had a gift of money recently
  C) Li's mother would give her some
  D) grandfather will never part with his money for salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1256:

  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 1257:

  "Will college make you a better Olokun

  Priest?

  Will it make you serve our ancestors

  Better?

  Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-

  Hearted priest

  Of Olokun. Did I go to college?" Grace Osifo: Dizzy The literary device used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) metaphor
  C) simile
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1258: This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker, et al (ed.): New poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): poems Black Africa; K.E. senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; M. Umukoro and A Sani, et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature - in - English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril, et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: poetry: E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer poems and D.I. Nwoga (ed.): West African Verse. The major theme of Thomas Gray''s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is that death renders life Options:
  A) meaningless for the rich
  B) meaningful for the poor
  C) meaningless for all
  D) meaningful for all
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1259:

  This question is based on George Orwell's 1984.'Big Brothers Is Watching You' Big Brother Controls life in Oceania Though the four ministries of peace, Love, plenty, are Truth.

  The Couple continue to meet secretly in an attic room above a junk shop owned by

  Options:
  A) Mr. Carrington
  B) O'Brien
  C) Eurasia
  D) Coworker Julius
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1260:

  CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
  CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
  BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
  when you've abandoned it for some time.
  Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

  The literary devices in the dialogue above are

  Options:
  A) hyperbole and allusion
  B) irony and parody
  C) allusion and paradox
  D) humour and irony
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  The correct answer is A .