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 141:

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

  The significance of the sub-plot dealing with Feste,

  Toby and Maria is the expression of life's

  Options:
  A) fragility
  B) pleasure
  C) comedy
  D) romance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 142: Reversal of fortune as used in the criticism of a literary work describes the Options:
  A) rise to fame of the central character
  B) success of the hero or heroine
  C) reward of the hero
  D) sudden change in the fate of the central character.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 143: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 144:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A satire employs

  Options:
  A) comedy with the intent to amuse
  B) farce to comment on societal conduct
  C) irony to mock at situations
  D) sarcasm and humour for social criticism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 145:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The narrative technique adopted in Bayo Adebowale's Lonely Days is that of_________

  Options:
  A) a second person narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) an omniscient narrator
  D) none
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 146: These questions are based on general Literary principlesTravellogue is a work of art written Options:
  A) by a famous playwrite
  B) by an unpopular novelist
  C) on a journey
  D) before the death of the author
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 147:

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

  Options:
  A) a symbol
  B) an irony
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 148:

  Another shoal of cars swam past.
  One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
  elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
  a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

  In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of

  Options:
  A) birds
  B) ants
  C) fish
  D) lampposts
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 149:

  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 150:

  Use the extract below to answer questions

  Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
  Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
  Line 3: so was it when my life began
  Line 4: so is it now
  Line 5: so is it when I have grown
  Line 6: the child is the father of the man.

  
  The literary device used in line 6 is an example of______

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Paradox
  D) Hyperbole
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  The correct answer is C .