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 1501: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that Options:
  A) there is very little hope for genuine change
  B) all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
  C) the military is the hope for salvation
  D) the beautiful ones will soon be born
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1502: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The play shares the feature of classical tragedy through the use of Options:
  A) violence on stage
  B) chorus
  C) comic relief
  D) flashback
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1503:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  In literature, a round character is associated with

  Options:
  A) change and growth
  B) stability and determination
  C) simplicity and modesty
  D) running down other characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1504:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  'Thereafter, any yam harvest in the fields was harvested in the name of the son'

  The 'son' referred to in the above quotation is

  Options:
  A) Ezeulu's dead son, Obika
  B) Ezeulu's Christian son, Oduche
  C) Mr. Good Country's son
  D) Jesus Christ
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1505: This question is based on Femi Ademiluyi''sThe New ManIn terms of religion, the people of Ipaja can be described as Options:
  A) conformists
  B) liberals
  C) fanatics
  D) puritans
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1506: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In poetry, 'run-on-line' can be found Options:
  A) in most kinds of poems
  B) only in free verse
  C) uniquely in blank verse
  D) peculiarly in rhyming couplets
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1507: Alliteration is Options:
  A) the use of figures of speech to achieve poetic effect
  B) the repetition of two or more words having the same initial consonant sound
  C) usually employed to set the scene for a conflict
  D) All of the above
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1508:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm,

  In the novel, 'animalism' is a system of thought that emphasizes

  Options:
  A) conformity
  B) equality
  C) animality
  D) disparity
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1509:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

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  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1510:

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

  'He did it like an operatic tenor. A regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting his war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills...'

  This account of an important battle in the play carries a tone of

  Options:
  A) admiration
  B) mockery
  C) bitterness
  D) alarm
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  The correct answer is B .