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 1351:

  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you Close

  Close close! I'm the reason why its no go" Why

  Things are what they are?"Based on the novel "Piggy's" , the beast's words represents

  Options:
  A) human conscience
  B) innate evil in human nature
  C) the proximity of man and nature
  D) the child's affinity with demonic forces
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1352:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  'Whereat: with blade, with bloody blameful blade.

  He bravely broached his boiling bloody best'.

  The dominant figure of speech in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) alliteration
  C) assonance
  D) repetition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1353:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1354:

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

  The setting of T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' is characterized by

  Options:
  A) coldness
  B) confusion
  C) faiety
  D) warmth
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1355:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Shelly''Ode to the West Wind'

  The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1356:

  This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi'sThe New Man

  After listening to the soldiers' conversation, the convict decides to

  Options:
  A) get in touch with his relation immediately
  B) hide in the bush for one day and later contact Laoye Layeni
  C) hide in the bush for one week and later contact Sade
  D) contact his friends who arrange his movement
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1357:

  These questions are based on Ferdinand Oyono's The Old Man and the Medal.'As he opened and shut his mouth his lower jaw went down and came up,puffing up and

  Then deflating the skin under his chin'.

  The subject of description in the line above is

  Options:
  A) the high commissioner
  B) the white chief
  C) M.Fuuconi
  D) M. Pipiniakis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1358: This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Two major elements of the diction in the play are the Options:
  A) scenes and roles of characters
  B) political and educational background of players
  C) gender and class of the speakers
  D) status and emotion of the speakers
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1359: Based on the novel "Piggy''s", towards the end of the novel, the boys can best be described as Options:
  A) brave and resourceful
  B) frightened and beastly
  C) religious and orderly
  D) anarchic and savage
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1360:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

  Options:
  A) noble character with hubris
  B) lowly character who suddenly stumbles on some fortunes
  C) king with deep affection for his subjects
  D) central character after whom the play is named
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  The correct answer is A .