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 21:

  When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
  I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
  I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
  Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

  The reaction in the passage above is that of

  Options:
  A) anger
  B) protest
  C) rejection
  D) nausea
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 22:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?

  Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's

  The literary device used in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) apostrophe
  B) rhetorical question
  C) pun
  D) run-on-line
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 23:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Read the excerpt and answer the question:
  "Bat!
  Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep, And disgustingly upside down."

  The theme of this excerpt is____

  Options:
  A) All of the above
  B) the poet's right to Individual choice
  C) the poet's admiration of the beauty of nature
  D) the poet's appalling remarks about the bird
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 24: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In the theater, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called Options:
  A) aside
  B) soliloquy
  C) accoustic
  D) tone
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 25:

  A Literary work that ridicules the shortcomings of people or ideas is ......

  Options:
  A) a satire
  B) a masque
  C) a fable
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 26:

  This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

  The title, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

  Implies that

  Options:
  A) there could still be an upright man within an amoral society
  B) there is a possibility of moral regeneration
  C) the teacher is not involved in corruption
  D) any corrupt government will be overthrown
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 27: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Time out of mind
  the going was easy
  because of oil boom
  we glutted and plotted,
  as mad as a hatter'.
  The dominant figure of speech in the above piece is Options:
  A) assonance
  B) dissonance
  C) slapstick
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 28:

  Adeoti's "Ambush" ends on a note of___________

  Options:
  A) despair
  B) bright aspirations
  C) courage
  D) uncertainty
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 29:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.

  Sweet smile in time of snari gives pride in spite of sneer sing, rid this world of despair and save a snared heart from cascading stream of strife.The dominant rhetorical device in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) rhyme
  B) alliteration
  C) repetition
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 30: The epilogue in a play refers to the Options:
  A) conflict in the play
  B) tail-piece
  C) opening chorus
  D) dramatic action.
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  The correct answer is B .