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:

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

  'Excuse me Bluntschll what did you say had spoiled your chances in life?

  According to Bluntschll what had spoiled his chances in life was

  Options:
  A) an irrepressible Casanovan trait
  B) a chronic baromial temperament
  C) a hard boiled classical disposition
  D) an incurably romantic disposition
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 232:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to

  Options:
  A) be heavilymoralistic
  B) be clearly cohesive
  C) possess the unities
  D) have tragic elements
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 233:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'A slight breeze murmured in the air. Grasses swayed as if in resentment. Over in the horizon, just beneath the spectrum of the ascending sun, horizontal brands of red cloud hung menacingly above the tips of the trees and morning air smelled of burnt clay.

  The Victims by Isidore Okpewho

  Effect in the above passage is achieved through the use of

  Options:
  A) subdued tone
  B) visual images
  C) detailed description
  D) adequate punctuation
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 234:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'So Children,

  If per chance you see a here that roars

  Or an ape perched in a palanquin,

  Look on in silence..'

  'Africa by David Diop

  This excerpt exemplifies

  Options:
  A) poetic climax
  B) rhetorics
  C) paradox
  D) conflict
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 235:

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

  The preoccupation of the novel is

  Options:
  A) the life and times of Julian Odili
  B) Norman Obi's courtship of Effua
  C) the benefits of the extended family in Nigeria
  D) the travails and successes of Nkem and Odili
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 236: This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.Nnu Ego's Second Marriage as to Nnaife, a man who works in Lagos as the washer for Options:
  A) Nwakusor
  B) Dr. and Mrs. Meers
  C) Nwaeze
  D) Ngozi
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 237:

  "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew

  The furrow followed free

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea."Based on Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the dominant figure of speech in the above lines is

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) free verse
  C) repetition
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 238:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a work of literature, plot is constructed on

  Options:
  A) the principles of conflict
  B) exciting and memorable episodes
  C) the use of figurative language
  D) recurring events
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 239: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play? Options:
  A) It is not good to be over -ambitious
  B) A determined wife is a curse to the husband
  C) Power is sweet but always over-used
  D) Every evil is punishable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 240:

  This question is based on the Literary Appreciation.

  'I am jealous and passionate like Jehovah, God of the Jews;

  J.P Clark:Olokun

  A device used in the second line of the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) hyperbole
  C) metaphor
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .