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 1721:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  Angel Clare is depicted as

  Options:
  A) a rebellious and self-opinionated character
  B) an independent-minded character
  C) a fastidious and garrulous character
  D) a flirtatious and impulsive young man
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1722: Get up you shameless hussy', she bellowed, ' you strumpet, you fallen woman! I don't know what your father and I have done to deserve such a child the events that happened later in Mission to Kala show that the speaker in the passage is Options:
  A) milly offended by the daughter's behaviour
  B) truly outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  C) merely pretending to be outraged by the daughter's behaviour
  D) deeply offended by the daughter's behaviour
  E) indifferent to the daughter's behaviour
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1723: This question is based on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbrvilles.
  At what time does Tess often look so transformed before Angel Clare? Options:
  A) At 3 am ontheir way to milking the cow
  B) At 12 midnight while retiring to bed
  C) At 12 noon
  D) At twilight
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1724:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I have said too much unto a heart of stone

  And laid mine honour too unchary out'

  Twelveth Night by W. Shakespeare

  The above lamentation is an example of a

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) metaphor
  C) personification
  D) zeugma
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1725:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation

  As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go.

  Whilst some of their sad friends do say '' The breath goes now', and some say ''No''

  The tone of this poem is generally

  Options:
  A) appreciative
  B) serious
  C) imaginative
  D) conversational
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1726:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.'If it is true that the world talks too much

  Then let's all keep quiet

  And hear the eloquence

  Of silence'

  If it is True' by Richard Ntini

  One striking device used by the poet above is

  Options:
  A) rhythm
  B) contrast
  C) alliteration
  D) end-rhyme
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1727:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'I'm not going to be drawn into that old trap of an argument and be picked up by the tail like some wet rat out of a sewer;

  The speaker in the statement above is being

  Options:
  A) symbolical
  B) analogical
  C) metaphorical
  D) parabolical
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1728:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is

  Options:
  A) story angle
  B) story line
  C) aside
  D) point of view
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1729:

  A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) assonance
  C) metre
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1730:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' Shelly, 'Ode to the West Wind'. The literary device used here is

  Options:
  A) an apostrophe
  B) an allegory
  C) a poetic license
  D) a rhetoric
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  The correct answer is D .