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 171: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 172:

  This question is based on selected poems from R. Johnson and D. Ker et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa : Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A selection of African Poetry and E.W.Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The Duke's precious gift to the Duchess in Browning's 'My Last Duchess 'is

  Options:
  A) his family name
  B) a wedding ring
  C) his aristocratic class
  D) the title of a Duchess
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 173:

  This question is based on George Orwell's Animal Farm

  The events in the novel are set in

  Options:
  A) a possible soccial climate
  B) the distant past
  C) a real human society
  D) an imagined world
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 174:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The physical setting within which the action of a narrative takes place is the

  Options:
  A) stage
  B) scene
  C) locale
  D) location
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 175:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Hyperbole refers specifically to

  Options:
  A) exaggeration for adornment
  B) exaggeration for emphasis
  C) understatement of ideas
  D) restatement of ideas
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 176: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  Farce can be described as a dramatic piece marked by Options:
  A) movement from serious to the lighthearted mood
  B) comic and exaggerated actions
  C) actions devoid of meaning
  D) gloomy actions with momentary reliefs
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 177:

  This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.

  'I thought as much. I know what all these hide-and-seek games that have been going on will one day come to light'.\The speaker of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) Ogeyi
  B) Alice
  C) Ayo
  D) Mrs Obi
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 178: 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 movement in Adeoti's Naked Soles is characterized by Options:
  A) hope and agreement
  B) freedom and self-determination
  C) pricks and tears
  D) dissapointed and disarray
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 179: These questions are based on General Literary Principles.Pun as a literary device deals with Options:
  A) placing words side by side
  B) playing on words
  C) arragement of words
  D) placing two opposite phrases
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 180: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .