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 291:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  Options:
  A) sharks' predatory inclination
  B) futility of human struggle
  C) old man's lack of faith
  D) old man's incompetence in fishing
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 292:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epitaph
  B) anaphora
  C) tautology
  D) epigram
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 293: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.IN THE PLAY, THE TWO REVENGE PLOTS REVOLVE AROUND Options:
  A) Hamlet against Polonius and Laertes against Claudius
  B) Hamlet against Claudius and Laertes gainst Hamlet
  C) Claudius against Hamlet and Laertes against Gertrude
  D) Ophelia against Hamlet and Laertes against Hamlet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 294: Caricature is used to Options:
  A) ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
  B) censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
  C) expose the folly in literature
  D) elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 295:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'There was another, Sule. He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi, ''the theme song of his Burmese days.

  Kofi Awoonor, '' This Earth, My Brother'

  The character in the poem above is obviously a

  Options:
  A) veteran
  B) prisoner
  C) mercenary
  D) refugee
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 296:

  This question is based on Abubakar Gimba's Witnesses to Tears

  'A repulsive game, nonetheless. Majority participation in a voice doesn't turn it into a virtue,no matter the social standing of the participants.

  The game referred to in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) graft
  B) gambling
  C) draught
  D) scrambling
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 297: Thus question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of CorruptionIt can be deduced from the play that Options:
  A) drug pushing is lucrative
  B) no crime will go unpunished
  C) the wealthy also cry
  D) people will always complain
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 298:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.I have said too much unto a heart of stone,And laid my honour too unchary on it', There's something in me that reproves my fault, But such a headstrong potent fault it is that That is but mocks reproof.'

  William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

  A heart of stone in the line above is an example of

  Options:
  A) metonymy
  B) assonance
  C) metaphor
  D) litotes
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 299:

  'what happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up

  Like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore-

  And then run?'

  In the above lines, the poet achieves special effect by the use of

  Options:
  A) transferred epithet
  B) synecdoche
  C) alliteration
  D) simile.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 300:

  This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T.(ds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.); Exam Focus: Literature-in-English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.) Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.):West African Verse

  In Keats'On the Grassihopper and Cricket 'poetry of earth' refers to

  Options:
  A) poetry written about earth
  B) songs by grasshopper and cricket
  C) poetry written by mother earth
  D) songs by birds, grasshoppers and crickets
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  The correct answer is D .