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 Literary Appreciation.

  'For seven days it rained that June;

  A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that complained in his hair.'

  John Updike, Wash

  The images set in the lines above are of

  Options:
  A) the days of Noah
  B) rain and flood in June
  C) discomfort and likely destruction
  D) an animal, insects and fun
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 142: This question is based on General Literary PrinciplesThe moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge in a character is know as Options:
  A) hamartia
  B) anagnorisis
  C) hubris
  D) anamnesis
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 143:

  'The early morning smoke had now gone off the eyes of the day. Trees and houses were still wet from last night's rain, but a cool breeze caressed the world like a gentle hand.'

  The dominant literary device in this passage is

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) oxymoron
  C) synecdoche
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 144: This question is based on General Literary principleMyths differ from legend inn that myths Options:
  A) have more of the historical background and less of the supernatural
  B) are less concerned with moral didacticism
  C) are more concerned with moral didactism
  D) have less of historical background and more of the supernatural
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 145:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The king's clown whose skull is exhumed by Gravedigger is

  Options:
  A) Rosencrantz
  B) Yorick
  C) Sexton
  D) Fortinbras
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 146:

  The metaphorical significance of Frank Ogodo's 'Harvest of Corruption' is seen in the theme of_____________

  Options:
  A) corruption
  B) unemployment
  C) retribution
  D) betrayal of public trust
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 147:

  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.

  John Keats' 'Old on a Grecian Urn' expresses the idea that

  Options:
  A) the Grecian Urn is ancient
  B) the Grecian Urn is mysterious
  C) every work of art is beautiful
  D) life is long, art is longer
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 148:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  The two characters that symbolize the lion and the jewel respectively are

  Options:
  A) Lakunle and Sidi
  B) Baroka and Sadiku
  C) Sadiku and Sidi
  D) Baroka and Sidi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 149:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.

  The handkerchief that Othello inherits from his mother is made by

  Options:
  A) a famale prophet
  B) Desdemona's maid
  C) Othello's mother
  D) Othello's lover.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 150: This question is based on J.C.De Graft's Sons and Daughters.
  The play opens with a conversation between Aaron and Awere about Options:
  A) Aaron's choice of course
  B) Maanan's encounter with the lawyer
  C) George qnd Kofi
  D) Hannah and George
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  The correct answer is A .