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 1331: Assonance in poetry is the repetition of Options:
  A) internal vowels in words
  B) stressed syllables in words
  C) consonant sounds in words
  D) final sounds at the end of a line
  E) final sounds at the begining of a line.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1332:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  In the novel, bage cap signifies everlasting ________?

  Options:
  A) happiness
  B) sorrow
  C) freedom
  D) despair
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1333: 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 1334:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  Catherine's natural looks portray her as a

  Options:
  A) sophisticated lady
  B) soldier's wife
  C) mountain farmer's wife
  D) business woman
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1335:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

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

  What would you consider to be the major theme of the play?

  Options:
  A) Love at first sight
  B) Unrequited love
  C) Illusion and reality
  D) Humor and Tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1336:

  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 1337:

  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 1338:

  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 theme of Browning's My Last Duchess' is

  Options:
  A) an aristocrats's marital problems
  B) the pitfalls of a duchess now dead
  C) an ambassador's personal life
  D) the pride and arrogance of an aristocrat
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1339: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1340:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .