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 161:

  'Nightfall! Nightfall!
  You are my mortal enemy'

  The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  Options:
  A) allusion
  B) an ode
  C) metaphor
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 162:
  From the novel; Faceless

  Amma Darko's "Faceless" ended with________

  Options:
  A) an inclination of tragi-comedy
  B) an epilogue narrating how Baby T's spirit revenged her death
  C) an epilogue narrating how Fofo started her early childhood
  D) an inclination of indecisiveness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 163: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.The Ministry of peace is concerned with making Options:
  A) weapons
  B) wars
  C) reconciliation
  D) instruments
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 164: This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.'Not much. tell Queen Victoria that at last the big pot of corn been toppled; now mother hen and her children may rejoice!'The phrase 'mother hen and her children' in the passage above refers to Options:
  A) Princess Evbakhavbokun and herchildren
  B) Glogbosere and the other Benin chiefs
  C) Captain Carter and the British soldiers
  D) Queen Victoria and the British official
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 165: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Miss Havisham was a nasty, vindictive recluse because she was Options:
  A) born an eccentric
  B) cruelly ill-used by a man
  C) by nature nasty and shy of company
  D) badly brought up
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 166: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 167: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles."...the youthful hue/sits on thy skin like a morning due..."The excerpt above from Marvell's To His Coy Mistress is an example of Options:
  A) simile
  B) anaphora
  C) paradox
  D) onomatopia
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 168:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.....They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests..." J.P. Clark:CasualtiesThe imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synedoche
  D) metonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 169:

  This Question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  Kate could best be described as

  Options:
  A) s mild tempered heroine
  B) an unassuming aristocrat
  C) a hot-tempered aristocrat
  D) an acutely sensitive character
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 170: These question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.How did Winston start his rebellion against the state? Options:
  A) By keeping a private diary
  B) when he started a secret affair
  C) when he spied on the party
  D) by engaging ij anti-party activities
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  The correct answer is A .