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 231:

  One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"

  Options:
  A) didacticism
  B) allusion
  C) parable
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 232:

  This question is based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

  The initial reluctance of the Petkoff's family to accept Bluntschli's marriage proposition to Raina was on the account of his

  Options:
  A) Major Petkoff
  B) Captain Bluntschli
  C) Catherine
  D) Raina
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 233:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.Unequal laws unto a savage race,

  That board, and sleep, and feed....The lines above show that the speaker

  Options:
  A) detects discrimination
  B) is desirous of adventure
  C) hates his old wife
  D) knows much of his city men
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 234:

  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; M. Umukoro and A Sani et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In Browning's My Last Duchess' the poet- persona's attitude to the Duchess is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) love
  C) sadness
  D) scorn
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 235:

  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 236: The protagonist of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations is Options:
  A) Drummle
  B) Magwitch
  C) Miss Havishman
  D) Pip.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 237:

  A short poem that expresses an idea in a clever way is called _____

  Options:
  A) An Epigram
  B) A Limerick
  C) An Ode
  D) A Lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 238:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

  ...I am the twinkle of a Jewel

  But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!...'

  These lines suggest that

  Options:
  A) Sidi is superior to the Bale
  B) Sidi is weaker than the Bale
  C) Sidi is clever than the Bale
  D) the Bale is violent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 239:

  This question is based on J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt.

  The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of

  Options:
  A) lkaki
  B) Ekpe
  C) Udje
  D) Etiyeri
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 240:

  'poisonous pleasure of wine' illustrates the use of_______

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) metaphor
  C) oxymoron
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is C .