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 ARE BASED ON OLA ROTIMI''S

  THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME Well it wasn't there anymore with him?

  Someone who survived? Someone who managed to come home and say what exactly happened, not even a rat?

  The lack of precise knowledge concerning the king''s fate as outlined in the passage above, arose as a result of the fact that

  Options:
  A) all the six bodyguards deserted the king
  B) ofof the seven bodyguards, only came back
  C) all the four bodyguards were killed
  D) of the five bodyguards, only one came.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 292: The substitution of mild and pleasant expression for harsh and blunt one is called Options:
  A) ambiguity
  B) climax
  C) peripety
  D) euphemism.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 293:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 294: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  Hark, Hark!Bow-Wow
  The watch dogs bark!
  Bow-WowHark, Hark! I hear
  The strain of the struting chanticleer
  Cry, 'cock-a-doole-doo!
  In the above lyric, the words in italics are examples of Options:
  A) assonance
  B) onomatopeia
  C) alliteration
  D) consonance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 295:
  From the novel; Lonely Days

  The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

  Widows mourning in Kofi wear garments that are________???

  Options:
  A) White
  B) Red
  C) Black
  D) Green
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 296:

  A play in which the acts succeed on another without probable or necessary sequence is

  Options:
  A) Episodic
  B) Simple
  C) Linear
  D) Convoluted
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 297: This question is based on General Literacy PrinciplesAn example of a narrative poem is ________? Options:
  A) elegy
  B) epic
  C) dirge
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 298:

  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 299:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  Comic relief is

  Options:
  A) the use of humorous characters speeches or scenes in a tragic work
  B) a figure of speech used in comic theatre
  C) the use of hearty and wholesome laughter in plays
  D) a device used in the theatre where a play ends in marriage
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 300:

  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 .