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 241: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the instruments of power and torture belong to Options:
  A) the thought police
  B) individuals
  C) the government
  D) the party
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 242:

  THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME ''If you think that you can drum for my downfall, and hope that drum will sound, then your head is not good''.

  Odewale says this because

  Options:
  A) Aderopo is a skilful drummer
  B) he believes that Aderopo is plotting his overthrow
  C) he thinks that Aderopo is mad
  D) Aderopo has not learnt how to drum well.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 243:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'It was January and Monday my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.'

  John Updike, The Centaur.

  The long haul in the narrative above describes

  Options:
  A) a long strike
  B) Christmas and Easter holidays
  C) a long period of hard work
  D) a long vacation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 244:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Blank verse

  Options:
  A) is nonsensical verse
  B) consists of unhymed five stress lines
  C) is verse used by the nobility
  D) consists of rhyme in the second and fourth line
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 245: These question are based on selected poems from Ker, D.et al (eds.)New poetry from Africa; Soyinka, (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu K.E. and Vincent, T.(eds.): A Selection of African poetry;Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam focus:Literature in English: Eruvbetine, A.E.et al (eds): Longman Examination Guide and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West African Verse.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet persona mistakes the bats for Options:
  A) swallows
  B) pipistrello
  C) sparrows
  D) owls
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 246:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'You are the silent cold of pleasure locked in the world worldless wonder

  You are the hive of pleasure no dragon can plunder'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Dream code

  The excerpt above achieves its rhetorical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) repetition and meiosis
  B) caesura and hyperbole
  C) alliteration and irony
  D) metaphor and rhyme
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 247:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.......Out, out, brief candle!....

  This statement was made when

  Options:
  A) Macbeth received news of Banquo's death
  B) Banquo received news of his son's death
  C) Macbeth received news of his wife's death
  D) Macbeth killed King Duncan
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 248:

  A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

  Options:
  A) hero
  B) opposition
  C) villain
  D) heroine
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 249:

  _____________refers to time and place of a drama?

  Options:
  A) place
  B) scene
  C) setting
  D) act
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 250:

  These question is based on Literary Appreciation.Oh incomprehensible God!

  Shall my pilot be

  My inborn stars to that

  Final call to thee...The literary device used in the first line is

  Options:
  A) burlesque
  B) rhetoric
  C) passion
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .