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 211: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Othello.'No faith; she let it drop by negligence. And, to the advantage, I, being here, took up look, here it is.' This speaker of the lines above is Options:
  A) lago
  B) Cassio
  C) Desdemona
  D) Emilia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 212: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A device used in poetry to achieve emphasis or stress a point is known as Options:
  A) assonance
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) rhyme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 213:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 214:

  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 215:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 216:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  An iambic metrical foot consists of

  Options:
  A) an unstressed syllable foolowing a stressed syllable
  B) a stressed syllable following another stressed syllable
  C) an unstressed syllable following another unstressed syllable
  D) a stressed syllable following an unstressed syllable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 217: "I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ? Options:
  A) synedole
  B) euphemism
  C) repetition
  D) irony
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 218:

  Which one of the following does not relate to the tone in Diop's Vanity?

  Options:
  A) Sarcasm
  B) Condemnation
  C) Rejuvenation
  D) Concern
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 219:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's she Stoops to Conquer.

  The epilogue of the play deals with the impermanence of

  Options:
  A) nature
  B) friendship
  C) womanhood
  D) love
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 220:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) repetition
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is A .