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 1411: 'The pen is mightier than the sword' is an example of Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) antonomasia
  C) comparison
  D) synecdoche
  E) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1412: At the very end of Great Expectations, Estella disclosed to Pip that the source of her present maturity and wisdom was Options:
  A) the sound education she had at school
  B) her pleasant association with Mrs. Harvisham
  C) the suffering she had experienced in life
  D) her long exposure to high society
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1413:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  For a play to be successful on stage, it must not be short of

  Options:
  A) audiences
  B) speeches
  C) actions
  D) characters
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1414:

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

  The main themes in the play are best summed up by the phrase

  Options:
  A) military glory and romantic love
  B) heroism and marriage
  C) innocent women and brave men
  D) realism and romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1415:

  I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly. A.L. Tennyson: Ulysses

  The 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 1416:

  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.The effect of the repetition of the words

  'There where' in Lenne Peters' The Fence' is that

  Options:
  A) a mood of bitterness is created
  B) the poet easily reveals his anger
  C) it captures the poet's desperation
  D) it underscores the poet's sense of fulfilment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1417:

  In drama, comic reliefs often occur in_______

  Options:
  A) comedies
  B) tragedies
  C) historical plays
  D) romantic plays
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1418:

  'No, let them attack me. Is it not Ignorance that makes the rat attack the cat? Ten thousand of them-let them ... attack me. they have the arms, they have the swords. But me... I have only one weapon and this i have used, and mine is the victory...'

  The one weapon to which the speaker in The Gods Are Not To Blame refers is

  Options:
  A) pprophecy
  B) courage
  C) truth
  D) justice.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1419: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.
  The attitude of Nnu Ego when she was told that her >i>Chi would not give her a child is one of Options:
  A) indifference
  B) despair
  C) apathy
  D) hope
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1420: These question is based on General Literary Principles.The speech made by a character to himself on stage is Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) monologue
  D) epilogue
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  The correct answer is B .