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 11:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 12:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The narrator that tells his story as if all actions in the story revolve around him is

  Options:
  A) an omniscient narrator
  B) a first person narrator
  C) a scond person narrator
  D) a tird person narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 13:

  'They are as fearsome as they are fearless' is an example of______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) pun
  C) oxymoron
  D) simile
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 14: Shakespeare based the story of Julius Caesar on Options:
  A) actual historical records
  B) plutarch's lives
  C) Greek mythology
  D) John Bunyan's lives.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 15:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The overall design of a drama to which all other components relate is its

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) exposition
  C) structure
  D) symbol
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 16:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 17: Based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Before the shipwreck that occurred at the beginning of the play, Prospero and his daughter lived in the island for Options:
  A) eighteen months
  B) two decades
  C) twelve years
  D) fourty days
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 18: This question is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  One of the themes of the novel is Options:
  A) colonialism
  B) repression
  C) senility
  D) destruction
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 19:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  KATE:No shame but mine. I must, forsooth be forcedTo give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to weel at leisure, I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviourWilliam Shakespear:The Taming of the ShrewIn the excerpt above, it is clear that the speaker is

  Options:
  A) contented
  B) indifferent
  C) anxious
  D) enthusiastic
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 20:

  The main aim of caricature is to_______?

  Options:
  A) describe
  B) expose
  C) emphasise
  D) ridicule
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  The correct answer is D .